Word: sea
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...could wreck Intel's business model. Says Drew Peck, an analyst at Cowen & Co.: "You can't sell a $500 processor in a $1,000 PC." And though cheap PCs are a tiny part of the overall market--businesses generally buy pricier PCs--Intel may be heading into a sea change. Intel's buoyant stock is off 30% from its 52-week high (though it is still up nearly 100% in the past 18 months). Some analysts expect to see the stock at $100 a share in 1998, but many investors don't understand Intel's business. To them...
...understand the possible fate of a treaty that would govern the air, it helps to consider what happened to the treaty that would govern the oceans. That earlier pact is known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, but as far as the U.S. Senate is concerned, its fate and its initials are the same: LOST. Although more than 100 other nations have ratified it since 1982, the Law of the Sea Treaty languishes before the Foreign Relations Committee, along with almost 80 other international pacts covering everything from a nuclear-test ban to a boundary agreement between...
...reads like a landscape, with sky at top, hills and what appears to be a tower pierced by a window. When Dove talked and wrote about abstraction, what did he mean? Not pure abstract form, certainly. Nature was of absolutely paramount importance to him: in hills, rocks, sea, sky, trees, moon and sun, he saw a richness and variety of shape that inspired him throughout his working life. His project was to "liberate" forms from them, losing or blurring their descriptive qualities while trying to keep the sense of energy and continuous change--of life itself--that animated them...
Thousands of wind turbines have been installed in a dozen European countries. This year Denmark has been getting 6% of its electricity from wind power. Developers have started to install windmills in the shallow North Sea, whose winds could one day meet much of Europe's power needs. The boom is also being felt in Asia, where wind-power companies, in joint ventures with Europeans, are installing turbines in India and China...
...computers displaced typewriters, so can the advance of technology make today's smokestacks and gas-powered cars look primitive, inefficient and uneconomical. Unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy never runs out, and geologists will not have to travel to the Alaskan North Slope or the shores of the Caspian Sea to find new sources. The sunlight falling on the surface of the earth each day contains 6,000 times as much energy as is used by all countries combined. Studies show that covering the existing flat-roof space of many cities with solar cells could meet half to three-quarters...