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...decades to take them on. He was worrying about global warming back in college, when it was still more a theory than a real threat. His interest in stabilizing post-apartheid South Africa has drawn him to the problems of goat farmers and ways of bringing clean water and solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came up with a startling answer: new democracies tend to fail most often...
Except for its radical fringes, environmentalism moved into the political mainstream, and so did Hayes. By the time he was 35, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to head the Solar Energy Research Institute in Colorado, and clean power became his passion. After finding the time to finish his law degree at Stanford in 1985, Hayes was drawn back onto the environmental front lines by groups looking forward to the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day. The threat of global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels had thrust the environment back into the headlines...
Savvy speculators may want to look into the new solar system found orbiting the star UPSILON ANDROMEDAE last week. Distant planets have been popping up for a few years, but always singly; this is the first time astronomers have found a group. One even has an Earthlike orbit, so it might be hospitable--except that it's bigger than Jupiter and probably made mostly of gas. It could have an Earthlike moon, however. If you can find a broker, better get your bid in early for a choice...
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), in conjunction with three other research institutions, have discovered an entire solar system orbiting the star Upsilon Andromedae...
...until three years ago we had one example of such a solar system: ours. Now we know of approximately 20 stars that have planets," Sasselov said. "I need a lot of computer power to produce theoretical models of other planets around stars, and such computers cost lots of money so that's what I'll be using the money...