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...power." Because it has been promoting wind energy since the 1970s, tiny Denmark has become the world leader in production of wind technology. Last year Danish companies controlled more than 50% of the worldwide market for wind-energy technology. "Our overall goal is to make Denmark into the Silicon Valley of wind turbines," says Peter Hjuler Jensen, head of the wind program at the Ris? National Laboratory outside Copenhagen. Denmark is not the only European country to have bet heavily on the breeze. Germany now has the world's largest installed base of wind turbines, totaling 8,734 megawatts, which...
...existed, but they may have been exaggerated." In reality, the two men had far more in common. They were both Virginians. They were both Army officers, six-footers and experienced outdoorsmen, who first met eight years before the expedition when they were serving in Indian campaigns in the Ohio Valley. They shared with their friend Thomas Jefferson a passion for such Enlightenment sciences as ethnology, paleontology, zoology and botany...
...expedition began--Clark was the more experienced soldier and frontiersman. His five older brothers had fought in the American Revolution. One, General George Rogers Clark, had led raids that kept the lower Great Lakes region out of British hands. As an Army officer, William had trekked the Ohio Valley, leading troops at least once in a skirmish with Indians. "He is a youth of solid and promising parts, and as brave as Caesar," reported a family member...
...searching all this spring for the sighting or the tracks of one mother bear and her offspring, on a mountain that is scheduled to be logged hard in the name of "fuels reduction," to theoretically reduce fire danger. I belong to a local pro-roadless group called the Yaak Valley Forest Council, which would like to see the fuels reduced on this mountain but in a way that would leave all the living green trees still standing. Last year many people saw the tracks of the bear and her cubs on this mountain. After much struggle, we have succeeded...
DIED. DANIEL CASE III, 44, who, as head of the high-tech banking firm Hambrecht & Quist, and later chairman of J.P. Morgan HQ, helped fuel the Internet explosion of the '90s; of brain cancer; in San Francisco. Case, brother of AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case, financed such Silicon Valley pioneers as Apple Computer, Adobe Software and Netscape Communications...