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...electricity generation and eventually capture climate-warming greenhouse gases. Cinergy and American Electric Power are each working with GE and Bechtel to design power plants that would burn manmade "natural gas" derived from coal. The gasification process, which is also the first step in turning coal to diesel, would strip much of the filth and toxicity from coal before it's burned. Tampa Electric already uses this kind of technology at its Polk Power Station, which started out in the mid-90s as a joint project with the Energy Department...
...Things don't look so desperate when you strip out volatile fuel prices. The core consumer rate has risen just 2% the past 12 months, even though overall consumer prices have jumped a more troublesome 4.7% in that period. The big fear is that the core rate will lift as companies raise prices to offset the higher prices they pay for energy. "Inevitably, we'll get some pass-through," says James O'Sullivan, economist at the brokerage UBS. Indeed, Clorox, Marriott, Carnival, Deere and FedEx have already raised or said they would raise prices because of the high cost...
...suffered technical difficulties. Food giant ConAgra, which successfully produces trans-fat-free margarine spreads, has found stick margarine an intractable challenge. And trans-fat-free pie crusts, says director of product development Patricia Verduin, were as dense and chewy "as wonton wrappers." After 18 months, ConAgra has managed to strip several of its products of the offending fats, most notably its Kid Cuisine line. The customer response? Not a word. "The best reaction," notes Verduin, "is no reaction...
...Tables and chairs have been set upright, and the bottles and plates that stood for days as the sad reminder of never-finished holiday meals have been cleared away. The owners of restaurants at Jimbaran Bay say that when they reopen in a month or so, the popular eating strip will have security cameras and guards checking cars and their occupants. But with large numbers of young Indonesians ready to sacrifice their lives for Islam, says Zachary Abuza, who has authored several books on Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia, such measures may prove pointless: "When you are willing...
Weight, in pounds, of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip's $150 anthology...