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...Chinese officials, who find themselves trying to engage North Korea while at the same time walling it off. Above Dandong sits a watchtower whose stone battlements are silhouetted by the dying rays. The tower is one of the first outposts of China's Great Wall, remnants of which wind up and down the hills leading to Dandong. Now China is building another wall, a fence along its entire border with North Korea. But even when that structure is complete, it seems unlikely that Beijing will pay much more than lip service to imposing the kind of severe sanctions that, while...
...long for Dyson to reinvent the public-rest-room hand dryer. Most dryers blow hot air on your hands to evaporate the water pooled on the surface. Dyson's Airblade instead blasts the water off your hands with a jet of air traveling at 400 m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this fall and will...
...wind was whipping through the white tents at the Head of the Charles Regatta’s Reunion Village this weekend, and somehow the footage of hearth flames displayed on the HD flatscreen in the concessions area didn’t seem to be making it any warmer...
...harder for them to create a business out of it. Congressional JockeyingThe House Committee on Energy & Commerce had their own dig at party politics at the recent hearings, displaying a mock vintage movie poster featuring Scarlett and Rhett's classic pose with the caption "H.R. 4943 Gone with the Wind." (You have to be a Congressional aide to appreciate the humor.) They were referring to the Committee's pretexting bill, Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act, which they approved last May only to see it disappear from the docket when it was time for a floor vote. Committee...
...major holding today is Zoltek, a maker of carbon fiber. What's green about that? Carbon fiber is a component of wind-turbine blades, and Zoltek's orders have soared as wind energy expands worldwide. Automakers are also evaluating carbon fiber as a substitute for some metals to improve fuel economy, and next-generation hybrids and fuel- cell vehicles should contain more of the material. Except for the Japanese, "all the auto companies are using or testing carbon fiber with Zoltek," Robinson says. The stock is up more than 185% this year...