Word: silver
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...everyone agrees. "Biochar isn't a silver bullet, not by a long shot," says Dominic Woolf, a researcher at Swansea University in Wales. "You have to look at the big picture: pyrolysis itself produces carbon dioxide emissions, and you have to consider that when you try to determine biochar's capacity for sequestration." Lehmann says he welcomes the doubts, and notes that addressing them requires "investors willing to take the risk." Which is where chicken farmer Frye, with his small biochar operation, comes in as one of the few people out there actually making a business of it. With...
...Allard Bijlsma, that spells opportunity. Standing in a conference room in a suburb of Antwerp, he picks up an oblong silver object slightly smaller than a rugby ball, brandishes it triumphantly, and makes the sales pitch. "We will shape this market; we will change the rules of the game," he says...
...Naipaul as a boy showing off for girls with his acrobatics and singing "Ol' Man River" as he darns his socks. Much of his mischief and provokingness he got from his Caribbean origins, he acknowledges; and to see the calypso Naipaul before he began taking snuff from a silver spoon is to see a much more human and endearing figure than the master usually admits...
...year of Barack Obama, who is the indisputable Person of the Year, this is one competition where Michael Phelps can do no better than silver. But if the question were confined to sports, it would be Phelps by acclamation. His eight-for-eight performance in Beijing made him a household name, even as it placed him in the top tier of all-time Olympians...
...Silver ’10, on the other hand, said that she thinks having an introductory class is “really important...