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Utilities have been experimenting with small smart-grid initiatives on their own - for example, wiring 50,000 homes in Boulder, Colo., and installing 100,000 smart meters in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. But creating a truly nationwide smart grid - a goal for the Obama White House - won't be cheap and it won't be easy. That's why the news on April 20 that the city of Miami was launching a $200 million smart-grid initiative that would connect virtually every home and business in Miami-Dade County by 2011 was so important. Led by the greenish utility giant Florida...
Your documentary gives the impression that killer whales are cuddly, social creatures. Have they gotten a bad rap over the years? People seem to equate them with great white sharks. (See pictures of a closer look at sharks...
...meantime, the White House's public comments on these issues have remained noticeably vague. Last week, before announcing the release of once classified interrogation-technique memos and reaffirming his opposition to prosecuting CIA agents for any harsh methods, Obama issued a statement saying he was determined to "protect information that is classified for purposes of national security." During an appearance at the CIA on Monday, Obama declared, "I have fought to protect the integrity of classified information in the past and I will do so in the future...
...Three reasons. First, South Africa is Africa's economic and political heavyweight. What happens in South Africa affects all Africa and is often seen as a weather vane for the continent. In particular, the ANC is the most prominent of Africa's liberation movements - the revolutionary parties that overthrew white or colonial rule. Its success or failure in adapting from the demands of fighting a revolutionary war to the demands of competing in a free and fair democracy - requiring less a transition than a total reinvention - has wide implications for Africa, even 15 years after it first took power...
...autonomy of that region, which he said was his new and most important task," says Rozsa's close friend, Zoltan Brady, in an article published by the Croatian news site Evening Paper on Monday. Autonomy has become the central demand of the Bolivia's eastern lowlands, where the predominantly white and more affluent population is at sometimes violent odds with Morales' pro-indigenous agenda, and where the lion's share of the nation's vast natural resources are located. "He told me about his involvement in fights in the jungle," Brady wrote. "He was one of [many] guerrilla fighters there...