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...expect the yield to grow - perhaps even double, as corn yields have over the past few decades. But there's still a long way to go before you'll be able to fill your tank with switchgrass. Getting energy out of the tough cellulose molecules in a stalk of switchgrass is much more difficult than distilling it from corn, or better, sugar cane. Both the Department of Energy (DoE) and private companies like Broomfield, Colo.-based Range Fuels are developing the technology to commercialize cellulosic ethanol, but that day might still be years away. "We're doing serious technological innovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solving the Biofuels vs. Food Problem | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

Payack, an eccentric Cambridge resident who has had over 1,000 of his poems appear in publications including The New York Times and Rolling Stone, has never been the kind of poet to stalk coffeehouses and hide away in the stacks...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Populist Spreads Love of Poetry | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...based Global Positioning Systems (GPS) were recently installed in Harvard shuttles. These babies allow students to track the shuttle’s movement as it bounces between Mather House and the Quad (and beyond!). This new technology led FM to ask the age-old question: if you could stalk anything, what would it be? So whether you’re fleeing–or pursuing–your victim, let the hunt begin. 1. President Drew Gilpin Faust. Because FM needs to re-issue the “Scrabble Challenge” face to face. 2. Interim Dean David Pilbeam...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Things We Wish We Had GPS... | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...caribou on nearby Bathurst Island. Now, he says, the ice is too thin even in early May. If the warming continues, he fears that the cod population will shift farther north, disturbing the food chain for the ring-necked seal - the natural staple of the polar bears that regularly stalk the hamlet in the winter months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...phone and its server, remain. Phone manuals detail how to perform multiple reset commands to erase personal information and some online recycling phone services offer command sets for specific phones, but most people never bother to go through the tedious process, Mislan says. For example, child predators who stalk "moblogs" - the cell phone equivalent of web blogs that are popular with young phone users - may believe they have deleted text messages and postings, but the evidence may still exist within the phone's memory. Mislan recently examined the cell phone of an alleged child pornography ringleader and pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cell Knows About You | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

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