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...developing public charging points that would enable drivers to plug in and pay for the power they use. Another model altogether is Shai Agassi's Better Place, a company that wants to develop a vast infrastructure of public charging and "battery swap" stations. Agassi imagines a subscription model similar to how mobile phones work. Drivers would lease the batteries that power their electric cars, and be charged based on how much they drove. If they needed to drive farther than the range of the battery, drivers would pull over into a Better Place station and swap the depleted battery...
Each state runs guarantee funds for insurance policies, similar to what the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. does for bank deposits. Every state differs in what they guarantee, but most states set basic limits of $300,000 in life insurance death benefits, $100,000 in cash surrender or withdrawal value for life insurance, $100,000 in withdrawal and cash values for annuities, and $100,000 in health insurance policy benefits, according to the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Associations. The state where the policy was written determines the jurisdiction...
...mention the broader international community—towards a common goal with a shared purpose. Instead, Bush chose to pander to his base with divisive rhetoric and action. Judging from her convention speech, one can only conclude that a Palin administration would follow a disconcertingly similar path...
Ruvkun said that it took approximately 10 years to “sniff around the whole thing” to unearth the genetic regulatory role of miRNAs in worms and another decade to confirm that these genes execute similar functions during growth and development of other creatures including humans, fruit flies, frogs, and sea urchins...
...role of earmarks in GOP scandals. But when he became the Republican nominee, his across-the-board opposition suddenly became inconvenient. Aid to Israel and military housing is funded through earmarks, so McCain had to make it clear he'd protect those programs from cuts. He made a similar exception during his anti-poverty tour in April, when he visited an African-American community in Alabama that got ferry service through an earmark. He then met a Pennsylvania woman with ovarian cancer who was being treated through a clinical trial funded by an earmark; he assured her that program...