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...coolest part of Hammarby Sjostad, a new eco-neighborhood of Stockholm, is the trash. It gets sucked through pneumatic tubes - at 43 m.p.h. (70 km/h) - after residents drop their household waste into special chutes: one for food that will get composted, another for paper to be recycled and a third for garbage that can be burned. As the latter gets incinerated, the energy produced is converted into district heating and electricity. The goal is both to keep garbage out of landfills and ultimately to produce half the neighborhood's energy...
...Center Executive Director Aviva L. Argote said the refurbished space would be available to students from 4 p.m. until its closing at 11 p.m., which she called ideal because the Forum—the school’s central student space—often closes at 4 p.m. for special events such as distinguished speakers. Argote also said administrators and students engaged in dialogue about the shift after it was announced, and student suggestions and preferences for the space were considered. As a result of those discussions, the space now has mobile tables to facilitate group studying and acoustical adjustments...
...Brad Pitt descended on New Orleans, determined not just to build the city back but to build it back green. "It's going to come back," says Matt Petersen, the president of Global Green USA. "But we want to build it better than it was before." (See a TIME special report on the environment...
...number of us have talked about it - I mean we've got to make sure that there's not a gap here," Kerry says, referring to the effort to change the current state law, which doesn't allow an interim appointment until the seat is filled with a special election early next year. But don't ask Kerry who will fill Kennedy's seat. "There'll be a spirited, classic Massachusetts donnybrook, and I will happily not get into the middle of it," he says with a laugh. Will he endorse anyone? "It's not my instinct right...
...counterterrorism officials worry that a failure to capitalize on the post-Baitullah confusion within the TTP will allow its new leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, to consolidate his position and reorganize the group. Officials in Washington say special envoy Richard Holbrooke and NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal have pressed the Pakistanis to strike while the iron is hot. But after initial promises to launch a ground offensive in South Waziristan, the Pakistanis have backed...