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...something called rebaudioside A - Reb A for short - the best-tasting component of the stevia leaf, which has a profile very similar to sugar with respect to onset, intensity and duration of sweetness. Both Truvia and PureVia use Reb A as an ingredient, although Truvia's label lists it as "rebiana...
...place on 9/11 was bottom-up rather than top-down: the passengers who took back United Flight 93. The fighter jets could not scramble fast enough, and we may not have wanted them to: Who decides to shoot down a passenger plane, and what criteria does he or she use? We must stop assuming that we face a choice between heroic governmental protection from terrorism and no protection at all. At least with regard to airborne terror (remember also the “shoe bomber,” foiled by passengers and crew), vigilant citizens may be the only defense...
...like the analogy of a prison," says John Ging, chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, dispelling a description that many Palestinians themselves use. There is a tendency, he says, to view prisoners as deserving of their suffering for having committed some crime. "Nothing could be further from the truth... They're like you, if one morning, you woke and someone had transported you to a prison. What do you do? How do you cope with this? You're now imprisoned, in a prison, where you shouldn...
...challenge for California - and the nation - is that two-thirds of the televisions in use are the old-fashioned but energy efficient cathode-ray-tube (CRT) sets, no longer being manufactured. In California, 4 million new sets fly off the shelves annually. LCD screens now dominate the market. (Plasma televisions, which use approximately 32% more energy than LCD sets, have dropped to 5% market share.) In 2007, LCD televisions surpassed CRT-based televisions worldwide for the first time...
...paid off. Despite an increase in population and more appliances consuming power in homes and businesses, per capita energy consumption in California has remained flat for the past 30 years. The energy efficiency campaign began in 1975 with refrigerators; today, says Garfield, there are more, larger models and they use approximately one-quarter of the energy as before. California's per capita electricity consumption has remained constant at approximately 7,000 kilowatt-hours while the rest of the United States has increased 40 percent or roughly 12,000 kilowatt-hours per person...