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...Hilary's world, no one had ever been seriously ill, let alone died. Indeed, it was such a blue-sky existence that George and Ginny had begun to worry about how their daughter would react when she finally faced a loss. In the spring of 2001, they started gingerly preparing her for what they thought would be the first death in the family: their 17-year-old, half-deaf cat Clancy...
...from a quarantine center and nursed him to health, but four relatives were among the 7,643 people in the area that the government says perished. The years haven't diminished his rage. "I hate the Japanese so much I can't live with them under the same sky," he says...
...soon we reach an era of clean, inexhaustible energy depends on technology. Solar and wind energies are intermittent: when the sky is cloudy or the breeze dies down, fossil fuel or nuclear plants must kick in to compensate. But scientists are working on better ways to store electricity from renewable sources. Current from wind, solar or geothermal energy can be used to extract hydrogen from water molecules. In the future, hydrogen could be stored in tanks, and when energy is needed, the gas could be run through a fuel cell, a device that combines hydrogen with oxygen. The result: pollution...
...construction materials are on the horizon, and the look and feel of autos are on the brink of a radical redesign. Driving promises to become more environmentally friendly, stylish and fun. We may not be whizzing around in flying cars like the Jetsons or speeding vertically toward the sky on magnetic tracks as in Minority Report, but we will definitely be traveling in ways previously unimagined...
...three-sided Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, is a major work by a renowned British architect, Sir Norman Foster. At 53 stories, it was until recently the tallest building in Europe. It is also one of the leafiest. All around its triangular interior atrium are gardens in the sky, set at different elevations, so that no worker is more than a few floors away from a sizable patch of greenery. "Building allows us to explore nature in a different way," says Jeremy Edmiston, of System Architects, who is conducting research on green-design principles for the Lindbergh Foundation...