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...giant wind turbine stands over Dagenham Heathway like an exclamation point. To Ford Motor Co., the U.S. corporation that erected it six years ago, the turbine is a vigorous declaration of modernity, generating the sustainable energy that drives what it calls a "global center of excellence for diesel engineering." These days, however, the 394-ft. (120 m) structure seems to punctuate the cry of pain that was once a busy shopping street in this hardscrabble East London suburb. Ford Dagenham produced as many as 340,617 cars annually and employed 40,000 people at its peak in the 1960s. Ford...
...renew his company's line of credit. This was in 2006, when lenders were starting to rein in aggressive loans made to small businesses. In the case of my husband, a wholesale supplier whose revenues were declining, the credit line that started at $250,000--and steadily increased for six years--matured, was briefly extended and then was cut at the bank's discretion. The bank FedExed my husband and his former business partner a letter saying they had nine days to pay back a seven-figure...
...latest attempt to quell antigovernment activities, Iran announced it would execute six people who had participated in a December protest. The sentence was announced one day before the start of the Feast of Fire festival, public celebration of which has been banned since the 1979 revolution, when it was denounced as un-Islamic. The announcement's timing was thought to be a warning to the opposition not to use the occasion to stage additional demonstrations. Although droves of dissidents defied the ban by celebrating in the streets of Tehran, analysts predict that the death sentences may force opposition leaders...
Galaxy Zoo discoveries have been important enough that astronomers have investigated some of them separately, using Earth-bound telescopes as well as the Hubble Space Telescope. The project's findings have led to 10 scientific articles, which appeared in peer-reviewed journals, and six more are on the way. And a few "zooites," as the volunteers refer to themselves, hope to publish their own citizen-science research projects someday, with help from professional astronomers...
...minutes later, he reboarded Air Force One, having spent just over six hours on the ground...