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...activist Leila Gregory, 51, took the podium and gushed about all the local celebrities in attendance. There was John Conyers Jr., the veteran Congressman ("You're an American idol!"), and Greg Mathis, the popular TV judge ("I just love him!"). When Gregory turned to Dave Bing - the NBA legend, steel magnate and mayor of Detroit - her demeanor changed. All she could manage was a curt "Hello, Mr. Mayor" before moving on. Not that it mattered much to Bing. A minute later, the mayor, who seems to endure ceremony only because it comes with the title, departed the premises...
...dream / Guess I’ll lay my head against the elbow and the window / and watch the wheels go.” Then it builds, swept away by M. Ward’s chugging, steam-engine strum and Oberst’s tense splashes of lap steel that lead it into a blazing release. When Jim James’ rich harmonies fan across the track, it’s likes seeing “The Wizard of Oz” go from black-and-white to flaming Technicolor for the first time.At the end of “Losin?...
Researchers conceived of the hand in response to a common problem in earlier models. Unlike human hands, the steel versions weren’t able to adapt to unexpected variations in their environments...
Human hands, for example, have little issue adjusting when an object—say, a mug of coffee—turns out to be smaller or in a different location than expected. But a steel hand, because of its rigidity, would likely spill the coffee or even break...
...process of increasing its energy efficiency, reducing the amount of energy required to produce a unit of GDP. Indeed, China's energy efficiency has improved in each of the past two years, a trend likely to continue, because a huge surge in investment in energy-intensive industries like steel and cement in the early part of this decade has run its course. New housing developments all over the country are also far more energy efficient. With that new energy efficiency, Hu said, will come a reduction in China's carbon intensity, the amount of CO2 it emits for every unit...