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There's nothing flashy about Lyudinovo (pop. 47,000), whose name translates roughly as People's Town. The central square is a traffic island with a Soviet T-34 tank on a pedestal, a World War II memorial. Next to it is a farmers' market, where local babushkas with woolly...
"This is a superior biodiesel," says Roy Beckford, a University of Florida researcher and expert on sustainable farm development. He has been studying different varieties of jatropha and in February plans to publish his findings that trees like those the Daltons are growing (since 2006 they've planted 900,000...
The park's reliance on the U.S., where consumer demand for electronics is plunging, means companies based there are suffering from unprecedented reductions in orders. Even the world's largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), recently asked its 20,000 employees to take an extra day off every...
For the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium, Paterson's proposed cuts would strike especially hard. Between them, the zoo and the aquarium stand to lose about $3 million, which translates to 30 staff positions. New York officials say the state's environment funding - where the zoo and aquarium...
In The Numbers Game, Dilnot and his co-author, journalist Michael Blastland, suggest dividing government spending by the number of citizens and the number of weeks in a year. A $700 billion bailout thereby translates into $45 per week for each American man, woman and child. Going one step further...