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...from the ocean without osmosis. It has no chemicals, it has no filters, it has no membranes, no consumables of any kind. It takes any input of water - you don't even have to pretest it - and what comes out is pure, distilled water. It meets the U.S. pharmacopoeia standard for water that can be injected. It's astounding. And it takes one-third the power of a handheld dryer to make a thousand liters of water a day, which, based on the World Health Organization's standards, is enough for a village of 100 people...
...Rethink How You Learn Just as not all students learn alike, not all colleges serve the standard fare of a core curriculum and electives. At St. John's College, which has campuses in Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe, N.M., students study nothing but the great books, retracing the grand arc of Western thought and literature from Plato and Plutarch in freshman year to Marx and Melville in senior year. Graduates from Alverno, a Roman Catholic college for women in Milwaukee, Wis., earn academic credits and acquire proficiency in the school's "eight abilities," which range from being a good communicator...
...mosque was their primary source of religious knowledge; 31% cited books, pamphlets, websites and videos.) Nor can it be easily argued that social deprivation or ethnic discrimination breeds radicalism; many of those arrested last week were from middle-class homes--the sort that send their children to university--in standard British multicultural neighborhoods, where Muslims, white Britons and more recent immigrants from Eastern Europe live together...
...Faridi, of Britain's Islamic Human Rights Commission. "But at the same time they're letting America fly bombs to and from Prestwick Airport [in Scotland] so that the Israelis can collectively punish Lebanon for the kidnap of these two soldiers. It seems that the government has a double standard in its value of life, and that's just going to fuel the isolation of the Muslim community." Says Faridi: "Everything is building up." Britain hasn't yet figured out how to calm it down...
Income annuities should not be confused with variable annuities. Variable annuities let you save tax deferred through standard mutual funds and may offer certain guarantees (like a minimum return). But they often have high expenses and commissions. Immediate-fixed annuities are simple, low-cost products that let you plunk down a pot of money and get a secure monthly income for life (or some other designated period...