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...hanging beam as he steps out onto the roof of the solar-powered office and apartment building in the Vauban neighborhood, which he designed and which opened last week. Below him stretch row after row of brightly painted buildings with solar-paneled roofs. He points out that each unit actually produces more energy than it uses, so residents can sell their surplus power to badenova - at j0.54 per kW-h. It's another advantage to going alternative that appeals to consumers like medical technician Angelika Ewen, 51. She and her partner, Beate Grzeska, 46, an accountant, have lived...
...fury for extraditing them, the soldiers will almost certainly not appear before a Spanish court. The U.S. is unlikely to extradite men who were cleared of any wrongdoing by a Pentagon investigation in 2003. In any case, a crime could be hard to prove. When the men's unit moved into Baghdad that day, "they were poorly informed, in a chaotic situation and under fire," says David Zucchino, a Los Angeles Times correspondent embedded with them. In Thunder Run, his book about the taking of Baghdad, he reported that a misconstrued intelligence report led the tank commanders to suspect...
...they were at it, they might as well rescue anyone in distress. They made their first drug bust in 1890. Over the years, the Coast Guard fought the maritime "rum wars" during Prohibition, saved tens of thousands of Cuban refugees and became the nation's lead oil-spill cleanup unit. Now the Coast Guard is supposed to protect the nation's 95,000 miles of coastline against terrorist attacks...
...bankruptcy judge ruled in favor of the company. In 2002 Polaroid was sold to One Equity Partners, an investment firm with a special interest in financially distressed businesses. (One Equity was a unit of Bank One Corp., now part of JPMorgan Chase.) Many retirees believed the purchase price of $255 million was only a fraction of the old Polaroid's value. Evidence supporting that view: the new owners financed their purchase, in part, with $138 million of Polaroid's own cash...
...start of the season, the spotlight was on the Tigers’ defense. For most of the season, it stayed there. Princeton has held opponents to an average of 18 points per game. At the core of its defensive unit has been its ability to stop the rush—the Tigers’ opponents have averaged 129 yards per game on the ground and only three touchdowns over the season...