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Alternative energy takes center stage at Mackinac Policy Conference
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Unite States - May 27 | Energy Bulletin
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US steelworkers form unlikely alliance as renewables reinvigorate rustbelt. Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania look to electric cars, solar and wind power after death of coal and steel industries ... Green groups have accused him of being "contradictory and illogical" and of failing to demonstrate sufficient dynamism in establishing a new, low-carbon approach to transport and power-generation in the United States. ...
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Man accused of demanding $30 to return lost phone (AP)
AP - A 38-year-old man has been charged with extortion for allegedly demanding that a stranger pay him $30 in exchange for their lost cell phone. Authorities said the unidentified victim flagged down an Iowa City police officer Sunday on their way to meet the man to retrieve the phone. The victim told police they'd had 10 to 12 conversations with the suspect about returning the phone, but that he was demanding payment.
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AP - A Pennsylvania woman was accused of firing a shot into the ground near her teenage son's feet because he wouldn't listen to her. Police say 35-year-old Dawn Lynn Hogan was arguing with her son in front of her home on Monday and eventually went into the house to get her 9mm handgun. Police said when she went outside, her son continued to argue and she fired a shot, but didn't injure him.
San Diego teens pranking school caught red-handed (AP) Top
AP - Police in San Diego say a dozen high school students were caught in the act of moving hundreds of desks and chairs out of classrooms as part of a senior prank.
Cancer patient held at U.S. airport for missing fingerprint (Reuters) Top
Reuters - A Singapore cancer patient was held for four hours by immigration officials in the United States when they could not detect his fingerprints -- which had apparently disappeared because of a drug he was taking.
Businessman accused of demanding dentures with gun (AP) Top
AP - A business man accused of ordering an associate to take out his dentures at gunpoint conceded that he made the demand during an argument over money. But the man denied it was a theft, saying he paid for the dentures in the first place and also said no gun was involved.
Motorcyclist accused of ramming RI cop — again (AP)
AP - A man faces charges for allegedly ramming a state trooper with his motorcycle, the second time he's been accused of such a crime. Mark Costa was arrested early Tuesday morning for allegedly striking Trooper Mark McGehearty, who was trying to stop the motorcyclist for speeding.
Canadian TV rapped for Obama assassination joke (Reuters)
Reuters - Canada's public broadcaster was wrong to show a skit that joked about the possible assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama and suggested he could be a thief, an industry panel ruled on Monday.
Police find feral girl in Siberia (Reuters)
Reuters - Russian police have taken into care a 5-year-old girl who has been shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs for her entire life, police said on Wednesday.
LA County says OK to couple's goats, llama, emu (AP)
AP - A Southern California couple will not be allowed to have 15 goats. They'll have to settle for 10 goats, two horses, a llama and an emu.
Priest fired for beating drug addicts (Reuters) Top
Reuters - The Serbian Orthodox Church has dismissed a priest running a treatment center for drug addicts after videos showed patients being kicked and punched.
Pink dolphin a standout in La. shipping channel (AP) Top
AP - What's pink, has red eyes and leaps around a Louisiana shipping channel long enough for you to believe your eyes? A rare albino bottlenose dolphin. Bottlenose dolphins are common in the lower Calcasieu Ship Channel, feeding in the deep water and riding on top of boats' waves. And when the pink one jumps amid four dark gray dolphins, it's easy to spot.
Cancer patient held at airport for missing fingerprint (Reuters) Top
Reuters - A Singapore cancer patient was held for four hours by immigration officials in the United States when they could not detect his fingerprints -- which had apparently disappeared because of a drug he was taking.
White tiger kills zoo keeper (Reuters) Top
Reuters - A rare white tiger mauled and killed a New Zealand zoo keeper Wednesday, local media said.
Police: Conn. woman bitten after 'bite me' remark (AP) Top
AP - An instructor at the Connecticut Police Academy has been charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly responded literally to a co-worker's "bite me" remark. Francis Woodruff, a former Waterbury police captain, was arraigned Tuesday and released on a promise to appear in court.
Clerk gives robber $40 from own pocket for insulin (AP) Top
AP - A convenience store clerk wouldn't open the register for a robber but gave the man $40 from his own pocket after the robber told him he needed the money for insulin. Police were called Monday night to the E-Z Mart, where the clerk explained that a man he didn't know entered the store and lifted his shirt to display a pistol tucked in his waistband.
Green-glowing monkeys have green-glowing babies (Reuters) Top
Reuters - Japanese researchers have genetically engineered monkeys whose hair roots, skin and blood glow green under a special light, and who have passed on their traits to their offspring, the first time this has been achieved in a primate.
Pa. police say man run over by his own truck (AP)
AP - Police said a man trying to enter a gated community in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains fell out of his truck while trying to open the gate and was run over by his own vehicle on Monday. The 52-year-old Tobyhanna man wasn't injured but was taken to a hospital for a blood test when police found him to be under the influence of alcohol.
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* 'Evil' China sex park torn down: state media (AFP)
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* Cash flies out of convertible on motorway (Reuters)
* Statue of former president loses head in Ohio (AP)
* Man, 81, cited for nudging pedestrian with vehicle (AP)
* Russian doctors marvel at big momma's birth (AFP)
* Court fines man for beheading wax Hitler (Reuters)
* Man calls 911 over 28-year-old son's messy bedroom (AP)
* Woman beaten up over asparagus prices (Reuters)
* Cops: Woman, 78, beats husband over alleged affair (AP)
* Cops: Driver was under influence of bowl of cereal (AP)
* Plumber uses snake with camera to find cat in wall (AP)
* Fla. police say men called 911 after bad drug deal (AP)
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AP - It's a different kind of long-distance relationship.
Naked woman goes to Fla. home, asks for cigarettes (AP) Top
AP - Authorities said a woman wasn't wearing any clothes when she knocked on stranger's door in the middle of the night to ask for cigarettes. The Pinellas sheriff's office reported that the woman, 52, went to the strange home early Friday morning. Deputies found her a short time later walking through a mobile home park wearing only boxer shorts.
Sexy "Venus" may be oldest figurine yet discovered (Reuters)
Reuters - A sexually suggestive Venus figurine with oversized breasts and thighs dates back at least 35,000 years and shows ancient humans had sex on their minds, researchers said Wednesday.
'Evil' China sex park torn down: state media (AFP) Top
AFP - A sex theme park in southwest China that featured giant genitals and a sex-technique workshop has been torn down after officials said it had an "evil influence" on society, state media said.
"Titanic" stars donate to final survivor (Reuters) Top
Reuters - "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and the film's director James Cameron have responded to a challenge and donated $30,000 to support the last survivor of the Titanic in her last years, a representative for DiCaprio said Monday.
Mad about MAD, LA man builds a dream out of CDs (AP) Top
AP - It's always been a mad MAD world for Neil Cuadra. The 55-year-old Internet entrepreneur has photographed a portrait he made of MAD magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman's head using junk mail CDs and DVDs and sent it to the magazine, a feat that landed him in the magazine's 500th issue, published in April.
Cash flies out of convertible on motorway (Reuters) Top
Reuters - A man lost 23,000 euros ($31,180) to the wind when an envelope with the money he had stuck in the passenger seat pocket of his convertible blew away during a test drive in northern Germany.
Statue of former president loses head in Ohio (AP) Top
AP - Someone has beheaded a statue of President James Garfield that was installed last week at an Ohio college.
Man, 81, cited for nudging pedestrian with vehicle (AP) Top
AP - An elderly driver was cited after a pedestrian said he nudged her twice with his vehicle for walking too slowly. The 81-year-old man was cited Thursday for hit-and-run causing injury. He's scheduled to appear in La Crosse County Circuit Court on June 4.
Russian doctors marvel at big momma's birth (AFP) Top
AFP - Doctors in Moscow are congratulating themselves on the birth of a baby to a woman whose severe obesity would normally preclude conception, a newspaper reported.
Court fines man for beheading wax Hitler (Reuters) Top
Reuters - A German court fined an unemployed man 900 euros ($1,227) Tuesday for knocking the head off a waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler in a Berlin museum.
Man calls 911 over 28-year-old son's messy bedroom (AP) Top
AP - An Ohio man who argued with his grown son over a messy bedroom said he overreacted when he called 911. Andrew Mizsak called authorities Thursday after his 28-year-old son — who's a school board member in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford — threw a plate of food across the kitchen table and made a fist at him when told to clean his room.
Woman beaten up over asparagus prices (Reuters) Top
Reuters - German police are searching for a motorist who beat a 24-year-old woman selling white asparagus because he was upset about her asking price for the coveted springtime vegetable, police said Monday.
Cops: Woman, 78, beats husband over alleged affair (AP) Top
AP - A 78-year-old woman arrested last month for allegedly beating her 84-year-old husband because she believed he cheated on her several times during their marriage was charged Thursday with assault. Prosecutors said she hit him with a bowl, pipe and carpet sweeper. He suffered broken ribs, pelvis and a wrist.
Cops: Driver was under influence of bowl of cereal (AP) Top
AP - A Massachusetts man may wish he had breakfast in bed instead of in his car. Police said a man who was stopped for erratic driving on Central Avenue last week was eating a bowl of cereal and milk while he drove. He told officers he was hungry.
Plumber uses snake with camera to find cat in wall (AP) Top
AP - When Bubba the cat disappeared inside the home he shares with Cheryl and Phillip Albers, they knocked holes in walls looking for him, but he couldn't be found. Bubba's meows could be heard through the night last Monday, Cheryl Albers said, after he vanished following a visit from an air-conditioner repairman.
Fla. police say men called 911 after bad drug deal (AP) Top
AP - Authorities said two men called 911 after they were robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy 20 pounds of marijuana. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office reported that the men went to a home Monday with $12,000 to buy the drugs. Two men at the home jumped them, took their money and drove off. A report said the victims jumped in their own vehicle to follow and one of them called 911 for help.
Tenn. woman fights off intruders with chili, broom (AP)
AP - Up in Tazewell, Wanda Bray slings a mean bowl of chili. Quite literally. Claiborne County Sheriff's Capt. David Honeycutt said Bray was confronted by men who broke into her home Tuesday night and she fought back by throwing what was described as "household objects" at them, including a bowl of homemade chili.
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Airlines are spending about $100,000 a plane to install the Wi-Fi equipment, and will in turn charge passengers to use the service.
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YANKEES 7, TWINS 6
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By TYLER KEPNER
Phil Coke walked two in the ninth and allowed a run to score, but the Yankees held on to win, completing a four-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins.
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Mets, Bereft of Home Runs, Stumble to Another Loss
By BEN SHPIGEL
In one of their most disheartening games of the season, the Mets committed five errors, and wasted an otherwise sharp debut by Tim Redding, losing to the Dodgers.
Cavaliers Have Been Dominant but Not Intriguing
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While the N.B.A.’s other contenders have been sweating through overtimes and seven-game series, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers have been in virtual hibernation.
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The Führer Returns to Berlin, This Time Saluted Only by Laughs
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Eight years after conquering Broadway and much of the rest of the world, Mel Brooks’s musical “The Producers” opened in Berlin.
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Intersecting Lives Tainted by Apartheid
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The lives of three disappointed men intersect with volatile consequences in this engrossing South African play by Ian Bruce.
MUSIC
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By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The overhyped media question of the moment is whether the country is ready to hand the crown to an androgynous, seemingly gay 27-year-old fireball from San Diego.
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Witness Tells of Escaping Kidnapping by Defendant
By KAREEM FAHIM
At the murder trial of Darryl Littlejohn, a witness testified about being handcuffed, thrown into a van and escaping from the defendant.
Arriving With 5 Shillings, Leaving With Hundreds of Friends
By KIRK SEMPLE
For many New Yorkers who attended the funeral for Austin Delaney, a co-owner of the Rosie O’Grady saloons, he was a low-profile benefactor to generations of Irish immigrants.
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By NINA BERNSTEIN
The sight of victory parties among Sinhalese in Sri Lanka is exacerbating raw feelings in the Sri Lankan diaspora, which has largely been able to exist without ethnic conflict.
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A Long Search for a Universal Flu Vaccine
By ANDREW POLLACK
One shot to protect against all strains of flu won’t be here anytime soon, but it is the holy grail for some researchers.
FINDINGS
Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening
By JOHN TIERNEY
Does your iPhone reveal all about the type of person you are?
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The Autopsy, a Search for Reassurance
By DENISE GRADY
Will an autopsy give you the answers you are looking for?
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Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside
By TARA PARKER-POPE
When a hospital won’t allow you to be by a loved one’s side.
Health Outcomes Driving New Hospital Design
By CAROL ANN CAMPBELL
Single-patient rooms, with closer nurses’ stations, are now viewed as an important element of high-quality health care.
CASES
Willing to Be Vulnerable: The Patient Grows Up
By DANA JENNINGS
Innocence at 12, fearlessness at 27, uncertainty at 50.
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EDITORIALS
India’s Challenges
It is time for India to exercise the kind of regional and global leadership expected of a rising power.
The Right to DNA Testing
Courts and legislatures need to do more to ensure that prisoners have access to DNA that could help prove their innocence.
Not Enough on Guns
By not calling for the full repeal of the so-called Tiahrt Amendment, President Obama is sending another signal that he is not willing to stand up to the gun lobby.
Senator Bennett’s Hostages
Senator Robert Bennett’s blocking of two nominees for the Interior Department is an unworthy way to stroke the right wing.
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OP-ED
War’s Psychic Toll
By BOB HERBERT
The psychic toll of this foolish and apparently endless war in Iraq has been profound since Day 1. And the nation’s willful denial of that toll has been just as profound.
In Praise of Dullness
By DAVID BROOKS
Recent research suggests that warm, flexible and empathetic people are less likely to thrive as C.E.O.’s than organized, dogged, anal-retentive and slightly boring people.
Dan Brown’s America
By ROSS DOUTHAT
The author of “Angels and Demons” and “The Da Vinci Code” is not just writing thrillers, he’s selling a theology.
Take the War to the Drug Lords
By GRETCHEN PETERS
As the Obama administration overhauls strategy in Afghanistan, the focus of antidrug efforts should be on the smugglers and drug processors.
Some Bankruptcies Are Worth It
By LEE C. BUCHHEIT and DAVID A. SKEEL Jr.
Why not adopt an approach that would, where necessary, allow the controlled failure of a major financial institution?
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AP - Authorities said a woman wasn't wearing any clothes when she knocked on stranger's door in the middle of the night to ask for cigarettes. The Pinellas sheriff's office reported that the woman, 52, went to the strange home early Friday morning. Deputies found her a short time later walking through a mobile home park wearing only boxer shorts.
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AFP - A sex theme park in southwest China that featured giant genitals and a sex-technique workshop has been torn down after officials said it had an "evil influence" on society, state media said.
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Reuters - "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and the film's director James Cameron have responded to a challenge and donated $30,000 to support the last survivor of the Titanic in her last years, a representative for DiCaprio said Monday.
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AP - It's always been a mad MAD world for Neil Cuadra. The 55-year-old Internet entrepreneur has photographed a portrait he made of MAD magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman's head using junk mail CDs and DVDs and sent it to the magazine, a feat that landed him in the magazine's 500th issue, published in April.
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AP - Someone has beheaded a statue of President James Garfield that was installed last week at an Ohio college.
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AP - An elderly driver was cited after a pedestrian said he nudged her twice with his vehicle for walking too slowly. The 81-year-old man was cited Thursday for hit-and-run causing injury. He's scheduled to appear in La Crosse County Circuit Court on June 4.
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Court fines man for beheading wax Hitler (Reuters) Top
Reuters - A German court fined an unemployed man 900 euros ($1,227) Tuesday for knocking the head off a waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler in a Berlin museum.
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AP - An Ohio man who argued with his grown son over a messy bedroom said he overreacted when he called 911. Andrew Mizsak called authorities Thursday after his 28-year-old son — who's a school board member in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford — threw a plate of food across the kitchen table and made a fist at him when told to clean his room.
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Reuters - German police are searching for a motorist who beat a 24-year-old woman selling white asparagus because he was upset about her asking price for the coveted springtime vegetable, police said Monday.
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AP - A 78-year-old woman arrested last month for allegedly beating her 84-year-old husband because she believed he cheated on her several times during their marriage was charged Thursday with assault. Prosecutors said she hit him with a bowl, pipe and carpet sweeper. He suffered broken ribs, pelvis and a wrist.
Cops: Driver was under influence of bowl of cereal (AP) Top
AP - A Massachusetts man may wish he had breakfast in bed instead of in his car. Police said a man who was stopped for erratic driving on Central Avenue last week was eating a bowl of cereal and milk while he drove. He told officers he was hungry.
Plumber uses snake with camera to find cat in wall (AP) Top
AP - When Bubba the cat disappeared inside the home he shares with Cheryl and Phillip Albers, they knocked holes in walls looking for him, but he couldn't be found. Bubba's meows could be heard through the night last Monday, Cheryl Albers said, after he vanished following a visit from an air-conditioner repairman.
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AP - Authorities said two men called 911 after they were robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy 20 pounds of marijuana. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office reported that the men went to a home Monday with $12,000 to buy the drugs. Two men at the home jumped them, took their money and drove off. A report said the victims jumped in their own vehicle to follow and one of them called 911 for help.
Tenn. woman fights off intruders with chili, broom (AP)
AP - Up in Tazewell, Wanda Bray slings a mean bowl of chili. Quite literally. Claiborne County Sheriff's Capt. David Honeycutt said Bray was confronted by men who broke into her home Tuesday night and she fought back by throwing what was described as "household objects" at them, including a bowl of homemade chili.
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U.S. to Issue Tougher Fuel Standards for Automobiles
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The Obama administration plans to combine California’s tough new auto-emissions rules with existing fuel economy limits to create a single new national standard.
Overhaul Likely for Credit Cards
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With Congress on the verge of limiting penalties on delinquent borrowers, credit card companies are expected to turn to their best customers to make up the difference.
Ex-U.S. Envoy Considers Key Role in Afghan Government
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Zalmay Khalilzad, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, could assume a powerful position under a plan he is discussing with the Afghan president, officials said.
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Sri Lanka Says Leader of Rebels Has Died
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The authorities declared a final victory in what could be the end of Asia’s longest civil war as the Sinhalese majority celebrates in the streets.
Young Pakistanis Take One Problem Into Their Own Hands
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Inspired by the lawyers’ movement, some friends tackled another complaint about government: garbage collection.
Obama Tells Netanyahu He Has an Iran Timetable
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After meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President Obama said he wanted a response from Iran to his diplomatic opening.
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Coping with an epidemic that spreads mostly in schools, officials have little solid information to use.
Changes Planned for Guantánamo Trials May Lead to Familiar Challenges
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Even with new rules, the military commission system may be subject to many of the same legal challenges that plagued the Bush administration.
Executions Debated as Missouri Plans One
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After meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President Obama said he wanted a response from Iran to his diplomatic opening.
Advocacy Groups Seek Disbarment of Ex-Bush Administration Lawyers
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A coalition of advocacy groups filed complaints accusing 12 lawyers of helping to justify torture.
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Michelle Obama visited New York to promote the arts, at the American Ballet Theater and the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Questions are being raised over an apparent conflict between BlackRock’s role as a government adviser and its profits as manager of troubled assets.
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A media pile-on will announce a 47-million-year-old primate.
Home Depot Girds for Continued Weakness
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The leadership of Home Depot has decided to move from a culture of expansion to one that is less vulnerable to consumer and credit slowdowns.
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New Starbucks Ads Seek to Recruit Online Fans
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
The coffee chain described the effort, which relies heavily on text, as its largest and expects its message to be spread through social media sites.
The Race to Provide Wi-Fi at 30,000 Feet
By JOE SHARKEY
Airlines are spending about $100,000 a plane to install the Wi-Fi equipment, and will in turn charge passengers to use the service.
New Mood in Antitrust May Target Google
By STEVE LOHR and MIGUEL HELFT
In the more aggressive antitrust climate of the Obama administration, the stakes appear to be highest for Google.
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YANKEES 7, TWINS 6
Coke Gets His First Save, Closing Four-Game Sweep
By TYLER KEPNER
Phil Coke walked two in the ninth and allowed a run to score, but the Yankees held on to win, completing a four-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins.
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Mets, Bereft of Home Runs, Stumble to Another Loss
By BEN SHPIGEL
In one of their most disheartening games of the season, the Mets committed five errors, and wasted an otherwise sharp debut by Tim Redding, losing to the Dodgers.
Cavaliers Have Been Dominant but Not Intriguing
By HOWARD BECK
While the N.B.A.’s other contenders have been sweating through overtimes and seven-game series, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers have been in virtual hibernation.
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The Führer Returns to Berlin, This Time Saluted Only by Laughs
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Eight years after conquering Broadway and much of the rest of the world, Mel Brooks’s musical “The Producers” opened in Berlin.
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Intersecting Lives Tainted by Apartheid
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The lives of three disappointed men intersect with volatile consequences in this engrossing South African play by Ian Bruce.
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‘Idol’ Final Raises Extra Question
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The overhyped media question of the moment is whether the country is ready to hand the crown to an androgynous, seemingly gay 27-year-old fireball from San Diego.
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Witness Tells of Escaping Kidnapping by Defendant
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At the murder trial of Darryl Littlejohn, a witness testified about being handcuffed, thrown into a van and escaping from the defendant.
Arriving With 5 Shillings, Leaving With Hundreds of Friends
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For many New Yorkers who attended the funeral for Austin Delaney, a co-owner of the Rosie O’Grady saloons, he was a low-profile benefactor to generations of Irish immigrants.
As Civil War Ends in Sri Lanka, New Divisions Arise in New York
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The sight of victory parties among Sinhalese in Sri Lanka is exacerbating raw feelings in the Sri Lankan diaspora, which has largely been able to exist without ethnic conflict.
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A Long Search for a Universal Flu Vaccine
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Will an autopsy give you the answers you are looking for?
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Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside
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When a hospital won’t allow you to be by a loved one’s side.
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Single-patient rooms, with closer nurses’ stations, are now viewed as an important element of high-quality health care.
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India’s Challenges
It is time for India to exercise the kind of regional and global leadership expected of a rising power.
The Right to DNA Testing
Courts and legislatures need to do more to ensure that prisoners have access to DNA that could help prove their innocence.
Not Enough on Guns
By not calling for the full repeal of the so-called Tiahrt Amendment, President Obama is sending another signal that he is not willing to stand up to the gun lobby.
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Senator Robert Bennett’s blocking of two nominees for the Interior Department is an unworthy way to stroke the right wing.
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War’s Psychic Toll
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The psychic toll of this foolish and apparently endless war in Iraq has been profound since Day 1. And the nation’s willful denial of that toll has been just as profound.
In Praise of Dullness
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Recent research suggests that warm, flexible and empathetic people are less likely to thrive as C.E.O.’s than organized, dogged, anal-retentive and slightly boring people.
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The author of “Angels and Demons” and “The Da Vinci Code” is not just writing thrillers, he’s selling a theology.
Take the War to the Drug Lords
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As the Obama administration overhauls strategy in Afghanistan, the focus of antidrug efforts should be on the smugglers and drug processors.
Some Bankruptcies Are Worth It
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Studies methods of improving wind turbine technology to make energy from the wind competitive with conventional energy sources. Part of NREL.
Sandia National Laboratory-Wind Energy Technology - http://www.sandia.gov/wind/
Sandia National Laboratory employs a multifaceted approach to the development of economical wind systems for power generation.
Wind Powering America - http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/
Information on the initiative to increase the use of wind energy in the United States.
Wind power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Wind_energy
Wind power history, mechanics, energy management and economics
WindPower Monthly Magazine - http://www.windpower-monthly.com
The world's leading independent Wind Energy magazine. Hot topics from every issue, 5 years of issues in searchable archives.
Wind Resource Atlas of the United States - http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/
Inventory of U.S. wind energy potential.
EIA: Wind - http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/wind/wind.html
Technical information and data on the wind energy industry from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
NRG Systems, Inc. - http://www.nrgsystems.com
Manufacturer of wind energy assessment equipment (sensors, loggers, towers). Used worldwide, NRG products are among the standards for the international wind energy industry.
The Windfarms Debate - http://www.cat.org.uk/information/windeb1a.tmpl
The case for and against, from Centre for Alternative Technology (Wales, UK)
Horns Rev Windfarm - http://www.hornsrev.dk
Details about the world's largest windfarm to be built in Denmark in 2002. Project information, news and links. In Danish and English.
Concerted Action on Offshore Wind Energy in Europe - http://www.offshorewindenergy.org
Introduction of CA-OWEE, reports, site search facility and link for contact. There is a separate password protected area for members, not available to general public.
Colorado Wind Power - http://www.cogreenpower.org
Sign up online for wind-generated electricity from participating Colorado electric suppliers. Includes an interactive environmental benefits calculator, wind power photos, and info on wind technology.
Nysted Offshore Wind Farm - http://www.nystedwindfarm.com
Offshore wind turbine farm. Includes construction insights, reports, power generation and project data. [English, Danish, German]
Nai Kun Windfarm - http://www.naikun.ca
Wind power project proposed for the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Includes project data and technical information.
Off Shore Wind Farms, UK - http://www.offshorewindfarms.co.uk/
Information on the wind energy industry in the UK, with news, views, and photos. Includes details of projects around the UK.
Wind Energy: Technology and Planning - http://www.world-wind-energy.info
Wind energy education material with photos, videos and comprehensive texts. Addresses technology, planning, operation, maintenance and grid integration.
The Wind Power - http://www.thewindpower.net
Resource dedicated to wind turbines and windfarms in the world. Includes pictures galleries, technical data and videos. [English, French]
NASA: Wind Energy Research Reaps Rewards - http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/wind_turbines.html
Article about the NASA research programs to develop wind power during the energy crisis of the 1970s.
OffshoreWind - http://www.offshorewind.net
Educational resource devoted to offshore wind energy developments. Includes forum, reports, articles and data on different projects.
Middelgrunden Wind Turbine Co-operative - http://www.middelgrunden.dk/MG_UK/ukindex.htm
The world's largest offshore windfarm with 20 x 2 MW turbines just 2 km outside of Copenhagen.
Risingwind - http://risingwind.blogspot.com/
Weblog by Thomas O. Gray, Deputy Executive Director of the American Wind Energy Association.
Curry & Kerlinger, Wind Power and Birds. - http://www.currykerlinger.com/
Experts on the impact of wind power and wind turbines on birds.
Windlab Systems - http://www.windlabsystems.com
Wind resource modelling.
Risoe National Laboratory in Denmark - http://www.risoe.dk/vea/
A very distinguished wind energy research center. Author of European wind energy atlas and WASP program. One of the two wind turbine certification and type-approval organisations
Windpower Photos - http://www.windpowerphotos.com
Photographs from wind power projects: land and offshore based. Photos from HVDC-light project on Gotland, Sweden. The site is in Swedish, English and German
Wind Farms of the World - http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/WKA/windfarm.html
Overviews and photographs of plants in Asia, California, the UK and continental Europe.
An Ill Wind - http://www.geocities.com/nigbarnes/
Objections against wind power, list of wind turbine manufacturers, and contact information. Based in Ireland.
Scottish Wind Assessment Project (SWAP) - http://www.swap.org.uk
Research program to promote a thorough investigation of the claims made for and against the use of wind-generated energy. Includes projects overview, data and publications.
Kilronan Wind Farm - http://www.kilronanwindfarm.com/
Ireland wind energy site has ten wind machines that are rated 500 kw. The developer proudly describes this new wind farm.
Wind Turbines Installed in Japan - http://homepage1.nifty.com/cubo/wind/indexe.htm
Personal Japanese wind turbine's site, with Japanese wind turbine's maps and photo.
BBC News: Ireland Takes Wind Power Plunge - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1755413.stm
The Irish Government has approved plans for the world's largest offshore electricity-generating wind farm, to be built on a sandbank in the Irish Sea south of Dublin.
Windfarm in Italy - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4142/windpl.htm
One of the first experimental windfarms in Italy (1997)
Gigawind - http://www.hydromech.uni-hannover.de/Mitarbeiter/MDORF/Gigawind/ENGLISH_VERSION/
Research project on offshore wind to energy converters at the University of Hannover, Germany. Includes event calendar, publications and software. [German, English]
NREL: International Programs - http://www.nrel.gov/international/
Provides information about technology applications, country and supporting activities, staff contacts, and links to NREL village power and renewable energy projects sites.
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