Word: stops
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...been preparing for this task? I have just tried to create a lot of space around my head - which of course is challenging because I live in a family and I have a job. I've kept a notebook with me, just trying to keep track of everything and stop in my tracks whenever possible...
...better view. There were the Tuskegee Airmen and the mighty of Motown, the past Presidents (like a live-action Mount Rushmore) and the whole of America in miniature, as though the continent folded in on itself and poured 300 million people into one space, one time, to stop and listen and then start over together...
...again twice for the presidency, once in 1844 and again on the Free Soil ticket in 1948. (He lost.) Teddy Roosevelt, in between African safaris and expeditions to uncharted Amazonian rivers, ran for a third term on the Bull Moose ticket. He was shot right before a campaign stop, yet was hearty enough to deliver his speech with the bullet lodged in his chest. (Still, TR lost.) Millard Fillmore ran a disinterested campaign for the Whigs. (Did not win.) Grover Cleveland, however, was victorious: in 1892, three years after leaving office, he became the only president to serve...
Sami Khoreibi couldn't stop beaming at his company's work. The baby-faced CEO of Enviromena Power Systems, Khoreibi started his business just a little over a year ago. Now he was standing over a 10-megawatt solar farm in the desert outside Abu Dhabi, with row after row of solar panels angled to the Middle East sun like bathers lying poolside. The solar farm was the first tangible evidence of Abu Dhabi's Masdar City, a $22 billion project that is planned to be the first zero-carbon footprint, totally renewably powered settlement - a monument...
...ills of old technology. That's because those in the rising developing world - which is how Abu Dhabi is classified, despite a GDP per capita of $63,000 - want to enjoy the energy-intensive lifestyles of the developed world, and they don't want fears over climate change to stop them. The best hope is that the innovation personified by Masdar and the WFES can beat the pace of warming. Masdar may seem like a mirage, but "this is absolutely real," says Nicholas Stern, a British economist and climate-change expert. "I'm very optimistic that this is happening...