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March 31, 2006
Tsunami helped to create peace, say UN experts
Lanka Business Online - Sri Lanka
... When a massive earthquake killed some 73,000 people in Kashmir in October India ... Aceh province, one of the areas worst-hit by the Asian tsunami, the disaster led ...
Cheaper and smaller inverters for solar panels
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... The focus of the research is on the development of new electronic systems for ... power from solar panels is DC (similar to that from chemical batteries) so an ...
Housing group's 'green-roof' development scoops top award
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
A London housing group's ingenious grass-roofed development has won a prestigious Civic Trust Award. Notting Hill Housing's Gold ...(Want to see more on Green Roofs? Here)
After 30 years, extinct Hawaii volcano hosts concert
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Diamond Head crater, hidden within the famous mountain backdrop to Waikiki beach ... and houses state Civil Defense offices in an underground bunker, closed as a ...
MINOS experiment sheds light on mystery of neutrino disappearance
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... The MINOS far detector, located in Minnesota, half a mile underground, again analyzes ... Michael, senior research associate at Caltech, died at age 45 on December ...
High-wire act
Boston Globe - United States
... A senior research fellow at the Center for Survey Research at the ... Underground wires have fewer outages from hurricanes and other destructive storms, although ...
Energy: The long and winding road
Western News - London,Ontario,Canada
... Galileo, more than 200 years of controversy and debate about the nature of heat energy continued until Sadi Carnot began looking into steam power and developed ...
Canada's Greens Urge PM to Act on China Death Camp Reports
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... The Sujiatun concentration camp is a secret underground facility where the Chinese communist regime has reportedly held thousands of Falun Gong practitioners ...
World Premiere: Saab BioPower Hybrid Concept Is World's First ...
Auto Spectator - USA
... The Saturn Vue Green Line SUV, with a new, more affordable hybrid system giving estimated fuel savings of up to 20 per cent, goes on sale in the US this summer ...
March 30 2006
Inglis to unveil 'H-Prize' legislation
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription) - Spartanburg,SC,USA
... The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, an arm of the US Defense ... to discuss the future of energy, including hydrogen power, better batteries and solar ...
Rolls-Royce to go steam for environment
Times of India - India
If you thought steam power had been consigned to industrial history, think again. For Rolls-Royce is developing a limousine for ...
Search for the alternative to fossil fuel
Financial Express.bd - Bangladesh
... be properly equipped with the technological know-how to tap its underground hydrocarbon deposits ... are not even aware of what treasures they have hidden below the ...
Italians to See Mussolini's Secret Bunkers
CBS News - USA
... see his elegant frescoes and lavish chandeliers _ and the hidden bunkers and ... of war started blowing, he ordered the construction of the bunker," said Eugenio
Mexico's Mayan underworld wonder
Zee News - Noida,India
... Over millions of years, underground river systems have formed that flow out to the ... "Research is at an early stage, but it is quite possible that the bacteria
Flood of ancient wealth
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... It is the ruins of a city hidden amid sandstone mountains and which ... to the skill of the Nabataeans as hydraulic engineers who built underground cisterns to .
Al Hota cave to open for tourists in July
Times of Oman - Oman
... The cave Visitor Centre, a 2-storey RCC structure, will house the reception, ticket counter, restaurant, souvenir shop, geological museum, platform for the ...
High alert: 85 terror warnings
Ynetnews - Israel
As Israelis prepare to cast their ballots Tuesday, police forces across the country have declared the highest state of alert, as the defense establishment is ...
March 27, 2006
Revival of fabled ginseng quietly takes root in state
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... Now, he's focusing solely on Michigan, working from a secret root cellar in Tustin next to his 115-acre "ginseng showplace" and slowly spreading his way north
Brace yourselves: the perfect storm is coming your way
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Should the underground be closed and the military put on standby to start ... Cluckie at Bristol University, who heads the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium ...
Clean-coal effort off to slow start Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... such as upside-down smokestacks to funnel carbon dioxide deep underground or beneath the ... in Washington, DC "It's like calling for a 20-year research program on ...
Bush's comments further focus religious debate
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA... agrees with "prophetic Christians" who view the Iraq war and the rise of terrorism as "signs of the apocalypse," the end-of-the-world cataclysm described in ...
Will we be warned when next tsunami comes, UN conference asks Haveeru Daily - Male',Maldives ... Some 217,000 people died, more than half of them in Indonesia which had no alert system at all, when a massive earthquake set in motion the tsunami in December ...
Villa reveals Mussolini's opulent life The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia... to see elegant frescoes and ornate chandeliers and the hidden bunkers and anti ... of war started blowing, he ordered the construction of the bunker," said Eugenio ..
March 26, 2006
Singing Zhouzhuang's praises
Toronto Star - Canada
... And the city has had a facelift, with cables being hidden underground and the canal water being purified. The architectural heritage is also being preserved. ...
Methane a threat at condo project The State - Columbia,SC,USA ... Methane is a colorless, combustible gas linked to a recent fatal explosion in a West ... typical of a landfill was found more than 12 feet underground during site ...
áXel-H Forms an Alliance with Mexican Scientists to Preserve its ...CSRwire.com (press release) - USA... of the Caribbean mix with fresh water surging from the underground rivers that ... Research suggests that the Riviera Maya really receives its water supply from ...
Terror underground
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA... Collins story played off people's fears of being trapped underground in the ... written four books on caves and co-founded the Cave Research Foundation, which is
All hail the scavenger Queen
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... The couple met when they were involved in the Hockerton Project, Britain's first earth- sheltered, self-sufficient housing development. ...
Researchers working to expand hybrid technology
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA... The batteries used in hybrid electric engines cannot be charged or discharged quickly ... miles per gallon to 34.6 miles per gallon, according to Olson's research. ...
Pick a peck of pickles - and save a historic house
Dover-Sherborn Press - Framingham,MA,USA
By Anne-Marie Smolski/ CNC Staff Writer. WELLESLEY - Every bottle or jar of Root Cellar Preserves maple syrup, corn relish or pickles packs a promise. ...
Chronicles of My Life in the 20th Century 11. The Battle of Attu The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan... We found an underground headquarters. ... Ammunition ships always travelled alone because an explosion aboard ship would destroy every other ship within miles. ...
Many people enjoy helping their feathered friends
Milford Daily News - Milford,MA,USA... Taddeo said. From the solarium in their home, Ron Taddeo said he can tell what time it is just by watching the birds. "There are ...
March 23, 2006
Mussolini's Rome villa opens for public tours
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... to see his elegant frescoes and lavish chandeliers - and the hidden bunkers and ... war started blowing, he ordered the construction of the bunker," said Eugenio ...
Forgotten Cold War chamber is found in Brooklyn Bridge
Independent - London,England,UK
When it comes to matters archaeological, New York can't compete with Egypt or Greece for buried temples or hidden tombs. ... "Could it have been a bunker for the ...
Car Consumer News - AAA Names Its Top Car Picks For 2006: Fuel ...Auto Spectator - USA Orlando, Fla. - AAA, one of the nation's leading consumer organizations for "all things automotive," has selected its top cars for ...
Terror fears: High alert in Jerusalem Ynetnews - Israel
... Following the high alert in Jerusalem, the army also boosted its activities around the capital and boosted security procedures at checkpoints. ...
Japan looking to use RFID tags to find disaster survivors
Mobilemag.com - USA
... Japan is fraught with earthquake disaster peril, of course, as well as tsunami risk. Such disasters make investigation and recovery difficult.
Plug-in feature could bolster hybrid models Detroit Free Press - United States... The only automaker to embrace the technology so far is DaimlerChrysler AG, which has agreed to build 40 plug-in hybrid Sprinter delivery vans for testing ..
Power cuts put frayed nerves to the test Wairarapa Times Age - Masterton,New Zealand
... car we turn the TV down and listen to make sure it's not another explosion coming. ... They said an option includes putting all the supply lines underground but as ...
A needless toll of natural disasters Boston Globe - United States ... The earthquake that leveled large parts of Pakistan-administered Kashmir last October ... About a year earlier, the Asian tsunami caused the deaths of 230,000 ...
At 100 years, Our Lady of Victory a gem of history
Pioneer Press Online - Glenview,IL,USA From a secret underground tunnel to the luminous stained glass windows lining the nave of the church walls, Our Lady of Victory has spent the last century ..
The Future of Hybrids
Smartmoney.com - USA
... University, who last year headed a research project on the future of hybrid and diesel vehicles in the US That said, for current gas-guzzling SUV drivers, the ...
Cress, a Tasty Spring Upstart
Washington Post - United States
... In the old days this period was called the "hungry gap." Produce in the root cellar had seen better days, the potatoes sending out white tentacles, the beets ...
China Arrests And Tortures House Church Leaders in New Crackdown ...
BosNewsLife - Budapest,Hungary
... Center of Xiantao City in Hubei Province," said US-based China Aid Association (CAA), a religious rights group representing several 'underground' house churches ...
Satellite tech to map underground cables
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA The research team will try to create the map by integrating existing digital and paper-based records and linking ... "Many of the country's underground pipes were .
FRENCH POLYNESIA: Declassified Documents Reveal US Spying Efforts ...
Pacific Magazine - Honolulu,HI,USA ... based on a variety of sources on French nuclear research and development ... France also conducted 140 underground nuclear tests at the same locations between 1975 ...
March 21, 2006
Dome church nearly ready
The Lacombe Globe - Alberta, Canada
... The church, a monolithic dome near Barnett Lake north of Lacombe, is in the final stages of construction. Worshippers gathered for ...
Benefits of technology best learned through history
Scenta.co.uk - London,England,UK
... The study compares the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) with that of steam power in the 19th century. ...
Chinese scientist works on technique of gender selection
Xinhua - China
... Some other experts question the idea of human research as they feel it ... of Chinese families, particularly the rural residents, go to underground clinics for an
A groundswell of memories
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... An Earthquake Marriage Project (www.sfgeneology.com) is chronicling "our natural urge to unite ... week, and they're just the leading wave of a tsunami of coverage ...
Glowing with confidence
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... run a small water company, started tinkering with photocells, batteries and reflective ... 1 percent sheer turmoil working on it," Gorrell said of the research. ...
Are hybrids really a better choice or just a 'socially acceptable' ...
Boston Globe - United States
... because they will probably never have to fork out money for replacement batteries. ... will get their act together and fund some serious research into hydrogen ...
The soul of Spain The villages of southern Spain reveal the heart ...
Kansas.com - KS,USA
... Too late for the cave's Neolithic burial remains, too late for its one-of-a ... lanes was appropriately humble: an old woman sweeping the approach to her house. ...
March 19, 2006
Gigantic cosmic cataclysm in Stephan's Quintet of galaxies
The infrared signature of an enormous intergalactic shock wave revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
The carbohydrate economy
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Daimler Chrysler has made a few plug-in hybrid versions of its Sprinter delivery van, but Toyota says it has no plans. It has just ...
'Seven-metre tsunami strikes Malukus Buru Island
AsiaNews.it - Italy
A strong earthquake triggers a tsunami. Three people die and a village is swept away. News reported only today. Ambon (AsiaNews) – A ...
Hybrid SUV with best-in-class fuel economy goes on sale
Hamilton Mountain News - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... In addition to outstanding performance, the Highlander Hybrid is also the world's first intermediate hybrid SUV to offer third row seating.
Treasure hidden underground
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA A secret, underground car museum, stretching far out into the distance? Gosh, Frank, it's true! Forty-five vintage automobiles, including 11 Model T's! ...
Cultivating rooms with a view
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA When Dottie Tucker built her house in the desert foothills of Cave Creek, she asked for one living room. She got five. Tucker has ...
Day of Reckoning
The New Media Journal.us - Downers Grove,IL,USA
... called "Green Salt." According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI ... cases, under populated areas such as the secret underground emergency command
Buyers are turning cool to luxury SUVs
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
... in his 1999 Ford Explorer last year for a Lexus 400H, the hybrid-electric version ... About 53 percent of luxury SUV owners who have traded in their models in the ...
Luxury home pulls out all the stops Toronto Star - Canada
... barrels cut lengthwise suspended from the ceiling are reminiscent of a wine cave. ... viewing," he says, "and a projection room that can also house electronics, or ...
""The Specter of Condemnation
The New Media Journal.us - Downers Grove,IL,USA
... spent a considerable amount of money and time fixing up her little pink house, a home ... As soon as an owner did cave to the pressure a bulldozer was immediately ...
March 17, 2006
Homesick for subterranean living? Charlotte Sun-Herald - Charlotte,FL,USA ... subterranean homes are energy-efficient. "The earth-sheltered homes are very good on heating and cooling," she said. "By nature, the more ...
Native Bees Could Fill Pollinator Hole Left By Honeybees Science Daily (press release) - USA... either because of fierce competition from Africanized honeybees or from species of mites they have no resistance to, are on the decline. Native bees offer an ...
Iran builds secret underground command centre: Report
Zee News - Noida,India
London, Mar 12: Iran has built a secret underground emergency command centre in the capital Tehran as its leaders prepare for a confrontation with the West ...
Study sheds light on Indigenous water knowledge
ABC Online - Australia
... Australians dug underground water reservoirs that helped them live on one of the world's driest continents for tens of thousands of years, new research shows. ...
Pick a peck of pickles - and save a historic house
Wellesley Townsman - Wellesley,MA,USA
By Anne-Marie Smolski/ Townsman Staff. Every bottle or jar of Root Cellar Preserves maple syrup, corn relish or pickles packs a promise.
County works on its tsunami preparedness Charleston Post Courier (subscription) - Charleston,SC,USA ... in place by the fall of 2007 to improve tsunami forecasting. Currently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration relies on earthquake sensors, but ...
Teen hurt in explosion released
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA ... from serious burns after he dropped a burning candle into an abandoned, underground fuel tank Saturday. The candle ignited vapors and caused an explosion. . .
Aquaponics helps save on grocery bill
ABC Online - Australia
It is called aquaponics, where you can grow your own freshwater fish alongside a few lettuces and herbs in an area the size of a car port. ...
March 2, 2006
Packing It In
PW-Philadelphia Weekly - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Mechanical energy performed by that weight could be used to power a small generator. He started work on a backpack capable of capturing that energy. ...
Wine country caves wow tourists North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... At about $135 per square foot, the cave will cost nearly $800,000 and house a processing facility, barrel storage and private tasting. ..
Surprise move may bury tunnel option for viaduct
Seattle Times - United States
... Big Dig are very strong," she said, referring to the infamous underground highway project in ... of the amendment say cost overruns for a Seattle tunnel could suck ...
Ducting ventilates mines and tunnels Ferret - Australia
... been used in major projects including the Cross City Tunnel in Sydney ... major tunnelling projects need to be reassured that workers in underground conditions can ...
Hurricane Katrina emergency crews leaving their cruise ship homes SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- Hundreds of hurricane evacuees who've been living on two cruise ships in New Orleans began clearing out yesterday, while people on a third .
The United States Has Been Probing for China's Nuclear ...
Secrecy News - Washington,DC,USA ... were being stored inside the cave of the secret tunnel. It quoted a Pentagon official as saying that "China has a whole secret network of underground facilities ...
Solel to build 150 MW solar power plant in Negev
Jerusalem Post - Israel
After 14 years of activity abroad, Beit Shemesh-based Solel Solar Systems Ltd. is undertaking its first project on home turf, announcing ..
PNG volcano erupts, people told to leave The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The volcano on tiny Manam island last erupted in October 2004, prompting the ... Observatory in Rabaul on Tuesday reported a strong eruption from Manam's southern ...
Giant Volcano Under Yellowstone Park Stirring to Life FOX News - USA
... Eventually, however, it could explode again as a super-volcano that would destroy life for hundreds of ... "But there's no evidence yet to suspect an eruption.". ...
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