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...planet ruinously. Unobtainium is a joke term engineers have used for decades to describe any needed material that is rare, costly or difficult to obtain. For Cameron, the specificity of unobtainium is not important, and despite Fox's objections, he never explains in the movie what makes unobtainium worth the trouble of interstellar travel. But the answer to that mystery is that the substance's room-temperature superconducting properties make it the key to cheap power generation back on Earth, where all the oil has run out. Unobtainium is crucial to running ships like the ISV Venture Star, which delivers...
...live shrimp unadorned to his diners and to PacoJet his walnuts until they turn into frozen powder for dessert. The combination is something altogether new: by showcasing his local ingredients in a way that is part molecular gastronomy, part lightness of touch, he makes it clear why they're worth preserving and cultivating. (See pictures of what the world eats...
Anyone believing the global economic crisis to be over should have taken a look around Europe this week. Desperate to revive his country's feeble economy, Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan promised $6 billion worth of savings in a budget aimed at taming the country's stubborn deficit. The plan is his second budget this year, and Ireland's harshest in decades. In a mini-budget announced a couple of hours earlier, Britain's Alistair Darling unveiled his government's latest plan to fix the U.K.'s broken economy, including a punitive tax on bankers' bonuses, a rise in social...
...this development is also an opportunity to bring in or promote younger faculty members who will hopefully prove their worth and establish themselves in the realm of academia while also bringing new perspectives to education. Sooner or later, younger faculty members need to climb the ranks, and perhaps offering older faculty a golden opportunity to retire will provide an impetus for new talent to shine...
...mother, showed up with a notary at the Madrid museum in early November and filed notice that he was reclaiming two paintings. Borja said that the two works - Goya's Women with Two Children in Fountain and Italian Baroque painter Corrado Giaquinto's Baptism of Christ, believed to be worth 7 million euros, were promised him as gifts by his father...