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...mixed with CO2 to keep heat levels manageable. What's left is pure CO2. Some is recirculated to aid combustion; the rest is easily captured for sequestration. If the combustion technology works, Vattenfall will build a 250-MW demonstration plant that will transport the captured CO2 to an underground storage site. It hopes to start building full-scale carbon-free plants around 2015 to 2020. In Britain, Powerfuel's Budge expects to break ground early next year on a $1.5 billion, 900-MW plant in South Yorkshire. It's adjacent to the Hatfield Colliery, a shuttered coal mine Powerfuel...
...over the country. "Twenty years of reconstruction are being destroyed in a few days," the Tourism Minister, Joseph Sarkis, moaned to me from his nearly abandoned ministry. The owner of a subterranean nightclub called the Basement is trying to rally his patrons with a new slogan: "It's safer underground." Even in Beirut, that may not be enough to keep the party going...
...civil rights," he says, "but many would be in danger on the streets." Administrators often see a breakout coming. Says Levine: "When residents get very quiet, we know they are thinking about leaving." Levine stopped one repeater by simply converting him from prisoner to guard. Now he is an "underground security agent" who watches the back door to see that no one slips...
...Israel refused. Haniya's spokesman, Ghazi Hamad, told TIME that was the militants' demand, not the government's. "We want to avoid further escalation and end this problem very quickly." But the Israeli intelligence officer says even if a deal were brokered, the kidnappers might have gone so far underground that they would have had no way of hearing about it. Hamas' record is sobering: of the dozen soldiers it has kidnapped since 1988, all have been killed...
...destruction tape - still running, unexpressed, in everyone's head - turned toward calculation. Ten subway cars at rush hour - two hundred people in a car - another thousand trampled in the underground in rush-hour panic as the gas spreads through the station. As many dead as 9/11, with a WMD attack spreading a devastating, airborne fear? (See what would happen to the accused 9/11 plotters...