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...America is currently tackling that challenge, with a 945-ft. tower in the heart of Manhattan that will use recirculated heat and natural gas to produce some of its own energy and use it more efficiently. Higher ceilings and insulating glass will reduce temperature changes and maximize available sunlight. The basement will even be equipped with a thermal-control system that will manufacture ice in the evenings, when energy demands are lowest, and use it to cool the building during the day, when power plants are running at peak capacity...
With the bunker's heavy metal lid dragged to one side, dank musty air rose up from the entrance, the forbidding gloom of the narrow steel-lined shaft below unbroken by the bright sunlight. It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer even under the pounding of Israeli air and ground operations. But any sense of exhilaration at the achievement was dampened by the nagging anxiety of claustrophobia...
...called Tunguska event dramatically illustrates what the dinosaurs painfully learned 65 million years ago: asteroids and comets do collide with earth. Geologists and astronomers believe that an asteroid several miles across crashed onto land then, kicking up enough dust to block out sunlight worldwide for years, leading to reduced agriculture and mass starvation. The same could happen to humans today should a “near-earth object,” or NEO, of that size crash into, say, Massachusetts...
...save electricity, the U.S. Congress introduced a provision in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandating that clocks "spring forward" three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and "fall back" a week later, on the first Sunday in November. But the energy conservation that extra hour of sunlight is supposed to deliver comes with a cost: computer glitches that some fear could run to Y2K proportions. Companies with BlackBerrys and older computer applications must make manual adjustments or run software "patches" to revise internal clocks, often expensive endeavors...
...city woke up into a crisp, cheerful winter morning, fresh white powder finally coating streets after weeks of freakishly warm weather. And as frigid sunlight gives way to snowflakes swirling in punishing wind, I am watching an outdoor soccer match. In the field, the forward - No. 10 - slides on the fake turf, losing a bright orange football to an opponent. Frustrated cries burst from a gang of dedicated sexa-to-octogenerian fans. "Strike it! Oh my God! What's he doing?!" the men holler, bundled in heavy coats. Some of them have been following this once-famed Prague club, Slavia...