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Sami Khoreibi can't stop smiling. The baby-faced CEO of Enviromena Power Systems, Khoreibi launched his business a little over a year ago. Now he is looking over a 10-MW solar farm in the desert outside the city of Abu Dhabi, with row after row of solar panels angled to the Middle Eastern sun like bathers lying poolside. The solar farm is the earliest tangible part of Abu Dhabi's Masdar City, a $22 billion project designed to be the world's first zero-carbon-footprint, zero-waste settlement--the embodiment of this oil-rich Arab city...
...were nothing more than window dressing.' HAZEL EDNEY, an African-American reporter, on not getting called on despite being seated in the front row of President Barack Obama's first prime-time press conference...
...seat thinking, ‘Is he going to make it?’” Ryan, formerly an undergraduate student at Boston College, expressed her joy at being back in Beantown, particularly at the Brattle, a former and frequent haunt of hers. “Second row, balcony center: I saw so many films from that vantage point.” —Staff writer Bram A. Strochlic can be reached at bstrochl@fas.harvard.edu...
...enough to observe that slowly but surely ticket-holders were still making their way through the security point. By 11:45 I had found my way to a region of the mass of people actually moving forward, albeit slowly. By 11:55 I was at the cusp of the row of metal detectors—at the front and center of the crowd—when the policewoman in charge announced “hold the line.” Five minutes from the moment, and those around me knew we wouldn’t make it. They really wouldn?...
...sitting down on the permafrost in a bizarre forest of legs as the sky began to lighten. After a one second frisking, Transportation Security Administration officials eventually let us through. I could easily have carried a weapon onto the Mall. Luckily, we managed to snag the best front -row spots in our section. Things were looking up as the sun rose on the first day of Obama’s presidency. The poorly-controlled crowd, however, had something else in mind. There were no longer any police officers in sight, and eventually the brewing mob mentality...