.... It is remarkably up to date, with reference to some of the very latest research. Discussion of recent changes in Antarctica and Greenland are expertly laid out. He also does a very good job in talking ... the point that it is a moral issue - but Gore draws heavily on Pacala and Socolow's recent work to show that the technology is there (see Science 305, p. 968 Stabilization Wedges: Solving ...

...a nonrigid body: tricky to design, hard to test. The dynamics of the fuel in the tanks are especially difficult: that's apparently what caused the Falcon 1 guidance system to go unstable in its recent test flight. The good news there is that having quantitatively evaluated the problem in an actual flight, the fix should be easy. But it took a failed launch to obtain the data. And that's ...

... a private concert. The winner - a New Orleans businessman who took home the Cabo Wabo prize package for a whopping $210,000, the highest bid of the evening. Over 600 guests ... as one of the finest tequila made. Cabo Wabo continues to win top competitive tasting awards, recently receiving a double gold metal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. http://www.modernguitars.com/...

...The German writer Wolf Lepenies, 65, has been awarded Frankfurt book fair's annual peace prize yesterday: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/08/arts/EU_A-E_BKS_Germany_Book_Fair_Prize.php ...group/soc.culture.cambodia/msg/80d6646553f84f8a?&hl=en All vividly interesting, in light of the recent Korean nuclear bomb explosion. I was awake last night when it was first announced, and...

...to 1,000 feet and volume capacities exceeding many million acre feet (MAF) of water. A recent study measured the volume capacities of 29,484 large reservoirs throughout the world. It ... earths dwindling water-dominant ecosystem. Are we playing against ourselves? When 1964 American Nobel Prizing-winning physicist Charles Townes down-played his break-out laser technology with reporters he ...

...you, you'll go away." Well, the silence from the right has certainly been broken. In recent months, several articles and reports have come out claiming to debunk my thesis. The most prominent are...Friedman's radical theories. Among other tributes, every two years, Cato hands out the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, worth half a million dollars. (This year it went to a 23-year...

... So he switched his position on offshore drilling. As Dana Milbank at the Washington Post writes, McCain recently argued that "those very same 'moratoria should be lifted' and proposed incentives for the states 'in ... against the electric car. He's against McCain's ridiculous ploy to award a $300 million prize to the person who fixes a glitch in electric car battery technology. 13. The Lie: ...

...faculty ride free on biodiesel-powered shuttles. Lowlight Investments: Recently created a socially responsible investments committee but hasn't...: Take a class with David Orr, a Lyndhurst Prize winner best known for promoting environmental literacy in higher...surpassed its prestigious peers in environmental stewardship years ago. Recent eco-moves include joining a program that lets students...

...'t she be the one making an effort if I am the prize? Why should I tiptoe around her trying to persuade her somehow into... my authority), and I have had mixed results. I tried craigslist recently after taking the "Robot Girl Frame Control Simulator" (which was ... all the free articles, they have helped a bunch. --Mondaytuesday I recently posted a rant on the SoCal (Orange County) rants and ...

... of years ago. 2. That the Anthropic Principle that the physicists have recently discovered is nothing more than the physicists realization that "GOD IS MAN". 3..... They wear out printing presses publishing books about God and giving speeches and prizes to each other. They could care less is some unknown researcher has actually DISCOVERED ...