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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...company is focusing its early investments on East Africa, an area with vast amounts of underground heat and little means to tap it. The company plans to start exploratory drilling next year to build a geothermal plant in Djibouti. In July, the government of the Philippines awarded a Filipino-Icelandic consortium exploration rights to half of Biliran Island in the country's south. Twenty years ago, three boreholes were drilled on Biliran and then abandoned when the underground liquid at the other end of the drill was found to be too acidic. Since then, the industry has learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Boiling Point | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...anything from Crock-Pot specials to vegan treats. I clicked on one app, Post Imagineering's no-frills Christmas recipes, which downloaded to my phone in seconds for 99¢. And though the thumbprint cookies I made from it got rave reviews, it was mildly annoying to have to tap the screen every few minutes to get it out of power-save mode while I mixed, beat and rolled my cookie dough. (See the Top 10 iPhone applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ditch the Cookbook: iPhone as Kitchen Helper | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...really care.Most people my age refuse to admit they like anything from Disney. It’s too commercial, too prepackaged. And that’s true. I am aware that a group of Disney employees, likely balding middle-aged men in their fifties, has somehow managed to tap into the pleasure portions of my brain. And it’s admittedly terrible stuff. It’s cheesy, unrealistic, and incredibly sappy.But what’s wrong with that?Here’s how I imagine a conversation between i-Pod boy and his friend probably sounds like...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of an HSM Addict, A Misplaced Endpaper | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...expected, Obama announced that he would tap a well-known duo of economic advisers. Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, will be his Treasury Secretary, and Larry Summers, a former Treasury Secretary, will lead his National Economic Council at the White House. He also named Melody Barnes, a longtime aide to Senator Edward Kennedy, to lead his Domestic Policy Council; and Christine Romer, a University of California, Berkeley, economist, to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, two other White House policy shops. Obama said this group would put some flesh on the bones of an economic stimulus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Steps Up to the Plate on the Economy | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...Michael O'Hanlon, a defense scholar at the Brookings Institution, disagrees. He says "it's a great idea" for Obama to tap Gates to hang around. "It suggests an awareness of the importance of continuity at a time of war," O'Hanlon argues, "plus a healthy respect for Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pros and Cons of Keeping Robert Gates | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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