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...performance vastly increasing while price is coming down. Back in the 1970s, when Denmark started experimenting with wind power, windmills were about 20 m high, with blades 10 m in diameter and an output of 55 kilowatts. Today's windmills stand 100 m off the ground, have blades that span 75 m and are capable of producing 2-2.5 megawatts. The U.S. firm GE Wind Energy recently announced new turbines capable of producing 3.5 megawatts offshore. The technological improvements have lowered the production cost of wind power to about one-fifth what it was 20 years ago - a level that...
...time-to-crime of 1.5 years, and those recovered from suspects aged 18 to 24 had a median time-to-crime of 1.1 years. The Hi Point 9mm is another downscale semiautomatic frequently seized from suspects in the 18-to-24 age range; it has a time-to-crime span of just one year...
...Words and Music," with Tom Drake as Rodgers and Mickey Rooney as Hart. There we learn that Hart was short, agitated, unreliable, full of mischief and misery - and that if only Betty Garrett had accepted his offer of matrimony, he might have lived his full span. It happens that Hart did propose to Vivienne Segal, who starred in R&Hart's "Pal Joey"; and she did refuse, telling friends, "I mean, I never even kissed Larry." The film omits Hart's real-life alcoholism and homosexuality - but then, most 40s musical bio-pics (see, or rather avoid, plague-like...
...influx of summer tourists to D. C.—generally a highly patriotic group of people to start with—should have caught the eye of the Smithsonian as the ideal audience for a commemorative exhibit. Admittedly, the American public does have a short attention span, but nothing could be more appropriate to give a high priority to than to memorialize the victims and heroes of Sept. 11. Beginning with this show would have been an excellent start...
Knowles made one final appointment before he left office: Kirby’s replacement as Director of the Asia Center, Burbank Professor of Political Economy Dwight H. Perkins. Kirby described Perkins as an “economist of worldwide reputation” whose “interests span an enormous part of Asia...