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Another company that licenses its technology, Headwaters Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah, was the only company willing to discuss the business in general terms with TIME. So exactly what kind of synthetic fuel is produced? The kind that meets the IRS definition of changing coal's chemical composition. "The...
10 a.m.: A blond woman in a neat pantsuit gestures at Hollis, and 30 or 40 elderly visitors murmur appreciatively. Thoreau and Emerson lived there? My, my. “Now we’ll head back to the coach and continue our tour with other historic sites of Boston...
Concentrated, constant volume often translates into one type of emotion: anger—or extreme excitement. Lightning Bolt, however, manage to evoke all kinds of musical landscapes within their relentless noise. Hints of sadness and wonder break through the abstraction.
The 1930s were not kind to paul Klee. When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, the celebrated Bauhaus painter was denounced as a "typical Galician Jew" - no matter that he was neither. His deceptively childlike yet technically sophisticated work was branded "degenerate," "subversive" and "insane." Within months he...
For consumers, the second part of this one-two punch is exaggerated oil prices. While the world is swimming in crude oil, it already trades at an inflated price of $30 a bbl., a level essentially dictated by Saudi Arabia with the approval of the U.S. government. This translates into...