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...hard to imagine electric cars solving the serious pollution problems in China or in electricity-starved Africa. More than 90% of China's power comes from overstretched coal-burning stations. "You could end up substituting CO2 emissions from a tail pipe with CO2 emissions from a power station," says Morsing. "If you cannot produce alternative energy, the whole idea of electric cars falls apart." In the end, governments will have to decide what is more urgent: cutting imports from the Middle East or cleaning up the planet...
...premiere and Sarah Palin donned Naughty Monkey Double Dare pumps at the Republican Convention and former Lehman CFO Erin Callan navigated Wall Street in skyscraper spikes. Because heels are the perfect shoes for negotiating the complicated landscape where authority meets beauty. Think of them as a peacock's tail--if each feather were also a poison dart...
Maheshwary is one of a number of Harvard students who have discovered the new game outside of the T station, changing his species’ appearance, adding features he feels necessary for survival: claws, tail, wings, bigger biceps, bigger... well, anything. Soon enough, you’ll find yourself doing in a few hours what humans have done for thousands of years—building civilizations, waging wars, and attempting to dominate the forces of nature...
...Galactic. Those of us who founded Space Adventures are, generally speaking, the same people who founded the X-Prize. And the X-Prize is what created the opportunity for Burt Rutan to go build SpaceShipOne, and Virgin Galactic came in and paid to have ?Virgin Galactic? painted its tail. They?re a latecomer to the party, but an extremely valuable participant; they'll probably fly the first commercial suborbital flights...
...have a lot of tail winds here, remember - the price of oil, and an economy that's on very solid ground. These can help to mitigate some of the issues that we may be having from the impact of the real-estate collapse...