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...China now aims to be the front runner in wind- and solar-power generation. In 2007 the government directed that by next year at least 3% of large power companies' generating capacity should come from renewable sources (excluding hydropower); this target jumps to 8% in 2020. That may not sound like much, but according to a recent study by the China Greentech Initiative, a coalition of Chinese and foreign businesses, NGOs and government organizations, environmental technologies including renewable energy could become a $1 trillion market in China by 2013. In a recent commentary, Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist and author Thomas...
...dropped into a mantelpiece stocking, Bob Dylan's Christmas in the Heart arrives to challenge pop-music purists and Dylan's rep as a perennial pioneer. Some listeners will want to pat the singer on the back--hard, so he can cough up whatever it is that makes him sound like a tubercular hobo who's wandered into a karaoke bar at Yuletide. Others will wonder what statement Dylan, a Jew who for a while declared himself a born-again Christian, is making with a 15-song bag of Christmas chestnuts, sleigh bells and baby Jesuses. Is the album desecration...
...tanks were DD (for duplex-drive) Shermans, improbable vehicles specially rigged with flotation devices and propellers. They looked as weird as their descriptions sound. They floated, barely, but the sea that morning was heavier than it had been during training, and 5,000 yards turned out to be too far. Twenty-seven of the 32 DD Shermans sank. (You can hear Tom Hanks yelling about this in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan: "We got no DD tanks on the beach!") Of the five tanks that survived, three made it because their launching mechanisms had jammed and they were...
...Anna Hamilton Phelan (Gorillas in the Mist) appear to have gobbled up every quotable line ever attributed to Earhart and then regurgitated it into a script. The results may be mostly accurate (both East to the Dawn, Susan Butler's 1997 biography, and Mary S. Lovell's earlier The Sound of Wings are credited as the basis for the screenplay), but they veer between the stilted and the cheesy...
While in custody at the army base in La Macarena, Visages receives meals, new clothes, cigarettes and even stationery to write to his family. Wearing a T-shirt, jeans and crew-cut hair, the soft-spoken former rebel doesn't look or sound especially lethal as he sits on his bunk inside a well-guarded tent and composes letters to his girlfriend, who is still involved with the FARC. But some of the troops around him can barely contain their rage, because Visages admitted to setting off a car bomb last year that killed two soldiers and badly wounded three...