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...toilet and the odd kitchen scrap--ferments in the underground tank, heating the greenhouse and producing a steady stream of methane to power stoves and lamps. The greenhouse helps keep the tank warm in winter, and the by-product of the tank's digestion makes good fertilizer. The whole setup costs $180. TNC, which installed more than 1,700 digesters in Yunnan last year, often donates the units to village schools, harnessing the energy of children first and using it to fire up their parents...
...complaisant Rules Committee chairman David Dreier as temporary majority leader was nixed by conservatives who dislike Dreier's moderate positions on stem-cell research and gay marriage. Instead the brain trust installed ambitious whip Roy Blunt, who will share some of the majority leader's duties with Dreier. The setup is so shaky that some House Republicans are pressing for the election of a new leadership team as early as January...
Here’s the setup of the film: Nerdy Crimson Editor gets kicked out of school for a crime he didn’t commit, and goes to England. There, he joins a football street gang. Right off the bat, he just starts beating fools up. And from the look of the trailers, he seems to feel great about...
...down no-name castoffs are strangers. And torturers, I tell you. They stop the swoon and win four in a row. They're in the thick of the wild-card chase. They're coming back! But I'm no fool. I've been here before. It's a setup. It's a tease. The idea is to raise my hopes again so they can ruin my September...
...with moderate arterial blockage greatly reduces the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. So a growing number of cardiologists are using the new cardiac scans to determine which of their otherwise asymptomatic patients need more intense medical treatment with statins and other drugs. "It's the perfect setup," says Dr. Christopher Cannon, a cardiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "You don't want to wait until you've had a heart attack to manage your cholesterol...