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...work building this new testing facility, but the benefits will extend far beyond these jobs. For the first time, researchers in the United States will be able to test the world's newest and largest wind turbine blades -- blades roughly the length of a football field -- and that in turn will make it possible for American businesses to develop more efficient and effective turbines, and to lead a market estimated at more than $2 trillion over the next two decades...
Samuels says he worries that this move towards “evidence-based medicine,” in which physicians adhere to pre-made treatment guidelines, will turn doctors into a sort of “functionary, who just sits by the computer and fills in the blanks”—a prospect he considers discomforting for patients...
...9/11-fund work. 'Dear Mr. Feinberg: My son died in Oklahoma City. Where's my check?' ... How do you carve out the very special, generous use of public taxpayer money for just a small group of victims of life's misfortune?" - Explaining the turmoil he felt over having to turn down victims and families of victims of other tragedies because "the public-policy response to the 9/11 tragedy is unique to an unprecedented historical event" (The Washingtonian, March...
...look across the bay at a collection of hulking tanks in which Chevron stores fossil fuels. If we don't stop global warming, he says, that water will rise. But if solar and other renewables keep growing as fast as they are in California, "we'll turn those tanks into hot tubs...
...world capital of algae-to-fuel experiments, including a new $600 million joint venture between ExxonMobil and Venter's Synthetic Genomics. Khosla's investments include Calera, a carbon-capturing-cement start-up founded by a Stanford expert in medical cement; Amyris, which has Berkeley malaria researchers working to turn sugar into diesel; and Soladigm, which exploits semiconductor-industry expertise to make energy-efficient windows...