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...crossed our arms. Waitresses pushed past with trays of vegetarian pizza and pitchers of water. The opening act—a man with a page-boy cap and a full beard—picked the strings of his guitar. He sang about Austin, Texas, about fairy tales, about a sun so hot it burned holes in your skin. We gave up on our table and Jim pointed to another. We sat and ordered beer. We felt out of place, in the way. We waited for the headliner to take the stage, a British singer-songwriter named Laura Marling...
...Large container ships are also beginning to utilize the sun to help power them across the world's oceans. Cosco, China's biggest shipping company, has inked an agreement with Solar Sailor for giant solar sails to be retrofitted on some of Cosco's tanker ships. The solar wings would be almost 115 ft. long, and Solar Sailor expects the wings to start saving Cosco money after only four years. The Japanese company NYK Line launched the M/V Auriga Leader in 2008, the world's first cargo ship partly run on solar power. With 328 solar panels covering its upper...
...allowed to emit more sulfur dioxide than trucks and cars in the U.S. Solar Sailor's Dane sees the shipping industry's evolution away from oil as inevitable - even obvious: "Why go back to the land to refuel a boat when the energy is out there in the waves, sun and wind...
According to Jonathan M. Mansbach—lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School—vitamin D is acquired primarily through sun exposure and food consumption...
...season, according to federal officials. Unlike the seasonal variety, which tends to be most harmful to those over 65 years old, swine flu skews far younger, which explains the large number of parents with children still dressed in their pajamas who waited hours outside the Encino clinic before the sun rose to get the vaccine. (The CDC found that more than half of the hospitalizations from 2009 H1N1 flu reported by 27 states between Sept. 1 and Oct. 10 were people aged 24 and younger. About 23% of the deaths reported from 28 states during this period were in this...