ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks may also be to blame. These particles are so small they are able to enter the organisms.
The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months.
nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same technologies of oedistance learning are now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses,
Dairy managements longtime chief executive, Thomas P. Gallagher, received $633, 475 in compensation in 2008, with first-class travel privileges, according to federal tax filings.
The data came from Lamonts new 1, 000-year tree-ring atlas of Asian weather,
and share them online this is like that for cyclists oeicase: That heartbeat sensor is just one example of the wild smart phone casings Apple is working on oeicharge:
showed that the skin cancer fighter also helped contribute to weight loss. Beyond weight loss, research shows that Vitamin d may also protect against diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
#imove Apples Newest Venture, a Hybrid Car Apples imove concept car Apple is preparing to add yet another product
a hybrid car. Italian auto designer, Liviu Tudoran, has released his design for the Apple imove concept car for the year 2020.
Not forgetting the companys computer roots, the entire dashboard features a touchscreen interface and an exterior clearly reminiscent of Apples signature computer mouse.
Tudoran designed the car with a 3-seat configuration and innovative luggage storage space. What we presently refer to as a oetrunk will be a oeluggage storage space in the imove.
the imove allows drivers to stow items under an oeelastic textile material in the rear of the car
Exterior luggage straps will also be available to give a Euro-traveler vibe. The roof of the imove is a oepyramidal shape formed by glass receptors
which also function to charge the vehicles electronic dashboard. The exteriors transparent body consists of oephotochromic material
which will allow drivers to change the vehicles appearance using the various available presets. A wide array of unique, futuristic rims have also been designed for further customization. oeclean
and open access to the interior is visible by the unique doors of the vehicle.
Furthermore, drivers will be able to open the top of the car while driving to give a cabriolet feeling.
The imoves small city design offers a modern, high-tech vibe as well as a greener alternative to gas powered cars.
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and getting in the way of airplanes; 2. Cownose ray (below) for gobbling up the thousands of farmed oysters that wildlife officials have farmed throughout Chesapeake bay;(
near what is now the 15 Freeway. The quake was so powerful that the soil liquefied,
teen drug use is a substantially more widespread issue than the other two. oehealth risks from all three are quite insidious, for the most part with the consequences felt many years down the road,
While their country cousins populations collapse, bees in Paris are thriving as having a rooftop hive becomes de rigueur for hotels
No wonder the Grand Palais, the Westin Hotel, and the famous Tour dargent restaurant have followed all in the footsteps of the Paris Opera,
By contrast, her research team found feral populations of herbicide-resistant canola growing along roads, near petrol stations and grocery stores, often at large distances from areas of agricultural production.
The researchers took samples of plants at 8-kilometre intervals along roads in North dakota from 4 june to 23 july 2010.
and fallen off a truck during transport. Sagers agrees that feral populations could have become established after trucks carrying cultivated GM seeds spilled some of their load during transportation.
She notes that the frequency and population density of GM canola that they found may be biased as they only sampled along roadsides.
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No fake ipads were available in Beijing during a recent trip to the markets. But they were readily available in Shanghai, at the Everbright Telecom Trading Center, a multistory electronics mall.
from Gucci and LVMH to Mercedes-benz and BMW. oeconsumers are much more in demand for authenticity,
But an export-driven surge in transportation demand could cause problems for railroads. Jim Young, CEO of Union pacific, told The Des moines Register s editorial board Thursday that the railroad would be oechallenged to handle a bigger load after this years corn,
soybean and wheat harvests. oein recent years weve had said excess capacity Young, whose Omaha-based railroad connects the Midwest with ports in Texas
and the Pacific coast. oethis year we might have more demand. I am concerned about the availability of freight cars for grain shipments.
In the U s.,wheat for September delivery rose by 60 cents per bushel Thursday on the Chicago Board of Exchange to close at $7. 86, a jump from $4. 50 a month ago when reports
Professor Arnold van Huis an entomologist at Wageningen University in The netherlands and the author of the UN paper, says eating insects has advantages. oethere is a meat crisis,
Van Huis is an enthusiast for eating insects but given his role as a consultant to the FAO,
Van Huiss latest research, conducted with colleague Dennis Oonincx, shows that farming insects produces far less greenhouse gas than livestock.
Van Huis says. In addition, he argues, the health risks are lower. He acknowledges that in the west eating insects is a hard sell:
Van Huis adds: oewere looking at ways of grinding the meat into some sort of patty,
In the original, Professor Arnold van Huis was described as an entomologist at Wageningen University in Belgium.
and tourists South africa Locusts lend interest to the staple dish of cornmeal porridge Australia Witchetty grubs are a traditional part of the Aboriginal diet Via Guardian Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati
Take Subway, which serves 2, 800 sandwiches and salads every 60 seconds in the U s. How many of its customers have heard ever of its founder, Fred Deluca,
Likewise, Enterprise Rent-a-car is the largest rental-car company in the U s, . but how many of its customers are familiar with Jack Crawford Taylor,
Jack Crawford Taylor Enterprise Rent-a-car Net Worth: $7 billion Jack Taylor founded Enterprise Rent-a-car, the largest rental-car company in the U s. He started the St louis, Mo.
-based company, originally named Executive Leasing Company, in 1957 with seven cars oeand a hunch that customers will embrace the novel concept of leasing automobiles.
In 2007 the Taylor family acquired National Car rental and Alamo Rent a car businesses. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates more than 1 million cars and trucks, the largest fleet of passenger vehicles in the world.
Today, Taylors son, Andrew C. oeandy Taylor, is the companys chairman and chief executive officer. Enterprises annual revenue was $12. 1 billion in 2009.
Clayton L. Mathileiams Net Worth: $1. 7 billion Clayton Mathile joined Iams in the 1970s and eventually become chief executive and chairman of the board.
He also created Aileron, a campus for entrepreneurs that promotes professional management practices as the keys to business success. S. Truett Cathychick-fil-A Net Worth:
including oereckless Road, which describes the early days of heavy metal band Guns n roses. oereckless Road weaves in dozens of videos of the L a. bands early performances and interviews with band members and groupies.
The videos and other digital features are designed to oeproject the emotion of the book without getting in the way of the story,
Trip Adler, a 26-year-old entrepreneur who started developing the site as a Harvard undergraduate,
On Scribd, Black found a 1957 tourist map of Bemidji Minn.,, where shed gone to summer camp as a girl.
oemeat sugar) and the 1894 diary of a woman traveling east from Oregon by wagon.
This shocking picture, with its piles of oven chips, mini rolls and tubs of ice cream, represents just how much junk food one child in the UK consumes in a year.
54 packs of Cadbury Mini Rolls Fat: 22. 7g per 100g=1, 823g per year Sugars:
He stopped taking Baltic cruises. And he stopped buying his wife pricey jewelry. But last year,
500 for an outdoor artisan pizza oven. oewe dont need the Jaguar or cruises to the Baltic,
expensive jewelry and fancy cars. For some, it still does. But for many consumers, the new luxury is something seriously different.
Bargain in the bag Its no accident that Coach, whose handbags used to start at about $250 and
Beyond that, Coach has added more bags at lower price points and made them more function for women carrying devices from iphones to ipads,
president of Coachs North american retail division. oethe last thing I want you to get from this is that Coach got cheaper.
Coach sales are up 8%for first nine months of its fiscal 2010 Value, of course, is in the eye of the purchaser.
if its been added to your basket or to someone elses cart. In two years, Gilt Groupe has amassed more than two million members,
The towns mayor, Carol Sibley, shops for three relatives in their 90s and watches with worry as some elderly residents shuffle across a busy highway to pick up provisions at the only remaining food seller a gas station
and train high school students who will run a grocery as a nonprofit. One quarter of the population is over 65 and half the school districts kids are on free or reduced lunch.
and having reliable transportation is difficult at best, Starkweather said. oeand you throw in a few Nebraska winters
The towns mayor, Carol Sibley, shops for three relatives in their 90s and watches with worry as some elderly residents shuffle across a busy highway to pick up provisions at the only remaining food seller a gas station
and train high school students who will run a grocery as a nonprofit. One quarter of the population is over 65 and half the school districts kids are on free or reduced lunch.
and having reliable transportation is difficult at best, Starkweather said. oeand you throw in a few Nebraska winters
and everyone calls him Van. A few dispensary owners declined to be interviewed; many are still wrapping their heads around the idea that
as well as his habit of standing near the side of the road and waving a huge Dr. Reefer sign at passing cars while shouting oecome get your meds,
he says. oealcohol, tobacco, car dealerships. I just took the best practices from those businesses,
lurching down the Yellow Brick Road yelling oebrains! Like every patient, Mr. Aten is courted assiduously with freebies by dispensaries who covet his caregiver rights. oemy guy used to give me a free half-ounce every month,
his former owners traveled to Kora for one last goodbye and found a lion that was as gentle and kind to them as hed been as a cub.
A 53-foot tractor-trailer rattles up to her farm on Lopez Island, the rear doors open
A 53-foot tractor-trailer rattles up to her farm on Lopez Island, the rear doors open
Meanwhile, back inside the Mushroom Hotel...You will never thoroughly grasp the concept of water until it grasps you back...
If only the shape of their trucks could make their beer taste better...After three days in the meth lab, Whiskers was well past the red zone on the gnarly meter...
No one knew exactly why he started pulling buses, they just instinctively knew that if they ever needed one moved,
#The Breathtaking Beauty of Lexiaguo, China A place so secret, few tourists know of its existence A place in south west of Kunming, Capital city of Yunnan Province.
This place is not listed in the tourist map of China. The red land of the eastern river is a place where one almost can not find it in Chinas tourist maps.
Even if there is, it has only a few words to introduce it. A place in south west of Kunming, Capital city of Yunnan Province.
This place is not listed in the tourist map of China. The red land of the eastern river is a place where one almost can not find it in Chinas tourist maps.
Even if there is, it has only a few words to introduce it. Pics). ) Dongchuan Red Land represents Yunnan mountain valley most attractive colors.
Because of its lack of infrastructure, transportation problem, inadequate lodging facilities, ordinary travel agency would not think of going there.
Excursion is the souls relaxation and banquet...Multicolor Wavesfive, six kinds of color mountains look like multicolor waves, so magnificent...
Early in the morning, donkey-ridden cart full of harvest transporting to the town, while a few of the children walking toward the different direction to school...
Later, in order to promote tourism it was named Lexiaguo (meaningthe place where beautiful colors set...A town in Lexiaguo...
and Amadou Kita is walking to the bus he takes to the academy. A thin boy, he is wearing a fleece jacket and pulling a blue trolley case.
The boarding school is on Avenue de lunion Africaine in a neighborhood of twisted streets lined with busy spare parts vendors.
almost looks like a spaceship amid the surrounding houses. It sits on the site of a former landfill.
He is sitting on a train headed west from Paris, looking out the window. He has broad shoulders and soft facial features.
He doesnt look very different from the other young men in the car, and yet he leads a completely different life.
or $1, 850) for the trip. Karabou borrowed the money from friends. The agent bought the plane tickets
and got him a forged passport that made Karabou older than he was. At the airport, he noticed that he wasnt even flying to Europe,
but that he had a visa for Dubai. He boarded the flight nevertheless. Showing Off His Skills to Gadhafi He completed a trial training period in Dubai.
The club there wanted to sign him, but Jean-Michel, the agent, couldnt reach an agreement with the Arabs,
at Orly Airport in Paris. His agent took Karabou to a hotel, took away his passport
The trainer works as a delivery driver. Karabou has shot already 15 goals this season, and the club stands a chance of advancing to the next division,
he is about to embark on a trip through the continent, giving talks in Senegal, Mali and Ivory coast and handing out brochures in Ghana and Cameroon.
Arthur Boka might be selling shoes by the side of the road, he says, referring to the Ivorian defender who plays for Vfb Stuttgart.
as well as emissions from the use of biofuels in light and heavy vehicles. Direct and indirect soil effects were studied.
The silk could also have applications in bulletproof vests and improved car airbags. Normally getting enough spider silk for these applications requires large numbers of spiders.
and say that it probably interfering with the bees navigation senses. They set up a controlled experiment in Punjab earlier this year comparing the behaviour
which helps them in navigation. oethere are reports of sudden disappearance of bee populations from honeybee colonies.
I had a flight of all three at Tipsy Parson, in New york city, and expected them to be uniformly vile.
But like so much else in American culture these days, Elijah Craig, Pappy Van Winkle, George T. Stagg and their brethren have a new generation of rivals,
#Transforming Albanias 750,000 Mushroom Bunkers Into Hotels, Cottages and Bars Mushroom hotel room Albanias Enver Hoxha ruled from 1945 to 1985
and towards the end made North koreas Kim Jong-il look normal. Being a bit paranoid, he constructed an extraordinary three quarters of a million mushroom-shaped bunkers.
Mushroom hotel exterior Mushroom bunkers Concrete Mushrooms Preview Albanias 750,000 inherited bunkers. from Concrete Mushrooms on Vimeo.
when you add fluids to your car. 19. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills 20.
was hit by a car or crushed in a cyclone. But thanks to a $14-a-month insurance policy, it would no longer be a financial disaster.
Insurance for cattle, chickens, tractors, trucks and lives is suddenly appearing in Indias vast rural areas
his eldest daughter rushed out of a taxi with her college applications in her arms. oemy daughter will be the first generation to go to college,
Up and down the narrow roads here, billboards tap into small-town and rural dreams. They advertise farmer insurance packages,
a high-paid engineer at a Mercedes-benz showroom in northern India. oenow if something happens, we have a backup plan.
Dahls son Theo was happily sitting in his baby carriage when it was hit by a taxi cab,
severely injuring the infant and causing water to pool on his brain. The current device that helped drain the fluid was unreliable;
the intruder smashed a plate glass window of a dessert shop in Lincoln, Neb. Inside, destruction.
New jersey Turnpike drivers were befuddled by wild turkeys hanging out at tollbooths. In Oshkosh Wis.,, police used a lampshade to shoo a turkey from a garage.
a turkey crossed the road to eat at Mcdonalds. Back from the brink Wild turkeys were driven to near-extinction a century ago by hunting and habitat loss.
when their van swerved to avoid one. Vance says those are the only deaths he knows related to wild turkeys.
Truck driver J. C. Caldwell narrowly escaped. He was driving at 55 mph on a rural road in Washington County, Tenn.
March 23 when a large turkey struck his windshield. oehis face was up against the windshield, his eyes looking straight at me,
once hitting two deer on the same trip. This was his first turkey. When he tells other truckers,
oethey think Im on drugs, that Im blowing smoke. Even Sheriffs Deputy Eric Stanton, who handled the case,
was surprised. oeive seen car versus bear, car versus deer, car versus cat, but this is the first time Ive seen car versus turkey,
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#Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps Animal Traps in the desert? British RAF pilots in the early 20th century were the first to spot the strange kite-like lines on the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt from the air and wonder about their origins.
Ancient astronauts? A new study of 16 of what are called desert kites in the eastern Sinai desert confirms
This was given some credence by the CEO of Canadian carrier Sasktel, who said in an interview:
the rangers can then marshal reinforcements from the nearby fire station to put out the fire. DEVICE WORKS ON SOLAR POWER The system is suitable in areas where there is no electricity supply
The entire production area in these silos will be managed with a robotic arm that travels up and down a central shaft performing all necessary tasks of planting,
His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-packard
Unilever, GE, Blackmont Capital, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Ford motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, Capital One
which can be turned into biofuel for transportation and other needs. Commercial Synergies The Sahara Forest Project team tell us that the innovative interaction between the two technologies helps each to function more efficiently:
A railroad engineer by trade Pachauri wrote an erotic novel and recommended that people reduce their meat consumption
while traveling around the world to save the climate. He has cut a miserable figure during the current crisis. The climate guru summarily dismissed justified objections to the IPCC report as oevoodoo science.
when the Vikings raised livestock in Greenland and grape vines were cultivated in Scotland, it was in fact warmer than it is today.
Then the Canadian rebel turned his attention to the far more important temperature curves of the recent past, those of Phil Jones and of his comrade-in-arms at NASA, James Hansen.
#Amazing Tree house Hotels Cedar Creek Treehouse From The swiss Family Robinsons massive forest hideaway to the Berenstein Bears oeno Boys Allowed backyard version,
The owners of these tree house hotels also have an unsurprising passion for the environment, using reclaimed wood, low-energy devices,
The hotel, inspired by Jacques Cousteaus passion for the rainforest, includes five miles of wooden bridges that connect the rooms and restaurants at treetop level.
and the Amazon river with eco-tourism adventures and refuel after a long day at open-air restaurants stocked with local food.
The hotel also bills itself as oelow density and low impact, catching rainwater for drinking, using eco-friendly detergent for towels and linens,
and offers links to companies that offset the carbon cost of your trip. Maravu Plantation Fiji is known best for its beaches,
The resort also puts an emphasis on eco-tourism and trips that explore the surroundings:
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I was embarrassed forever at the checkout that our cart resembled a giant Othello board. I have a choice today.
Airline flight attendants seem to be able to discern the difference between mobile phones and personal computers in their in flight announcements,
It is also hard enough to accommodate bike, skating, other vehicle traffic and durable to withstand harsh weather.
It even looks like concrete. Because Terrewalks sidewalks consist of interlocking panels they are easier to maintain then concrete sidewalks.
and even reducing the sound of pedestrian traffic Terrewalks has 6 LEED credits to its name.
and puts the car keys right next to them. That way, she says, she cant absentmindedly drive away without her groceries.
even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.
Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,
even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.
So in late 2007, he started on a road trip to meet with the people who were already building on Paypals limited open code.
Bedier hired executives from the banking and airline industries to help him design the platform.
Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,
Many public transit cards are contactless smart cards: a passenger can touch or wave the card over the turnstile to gain entry.
E-cash: Digital money that emulates properties of physical cash such as anonymous exchange. Public transit smart cards, such as Suica (Tokyo), Octopus (Hong kong) and Oyster (London), can be used as e-cash
when anonymity is preserved by not registering the card with a central authority. Mobile banking, m-banking, m-payments:
Wireless point-of-sale terminals allow people with no access to brick -and-mortar banks to make deposits, withdrawals, payments, etc.
even though like a medieval toll road it is long and bumpy and full of intermediaries eager to take their cut.
#Cars the Greatest Contributor to Atmospheric Warming Now and in the future: Study Cars greatest contributor to warming For decades, climatologists have studied the gases
and particles that have potential to alter Earths climate. They have discovered and described certain airborne chemicals that can trap incoming sunlight
Now a new study led by Nadine Unger of NASAS Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New york city offers a more intuitive way to understand whats changing the Earths climate.
such as ground transportation or agriculture, emits a unique portfolio of gases and aerosols that affect the climate in different ways and on different timescales. oewe wanted to provide the information in a way that would be more helpful for policy makers,
The on-road transportation sector releases significant amounts of carbon dioxide, black carbon, and ozonell substances that cause warming.
Snapshots of the Future In their analysis, motor vehicles emerged as the greatest contributor to atmospheric warming now and in the near term.
Cars, buses, and trucks release pollutants and greenhouse gases that promote warming, while emitting few aerosols that counteract it.
The researchers found that the burning of household biofuels primarily wood and animal dung for home heating
Unger and colleagues assert. oetargeting on-road transportation is a win-win-win, she said. oeits good for the climate in the short term and long term,
By 2050, electric power generation overtakes road transportation as the biggest promoter of warming. The industrial sector likewise jumps from the smallest contribution in 2020 to the third largest by 2100. oethe differences are
transportation, household biofuels and animal husbandry will have the greatest warming impact on the climate, while the shipping, biomass burning,
while on-road transportation and household biofuels exacerbate cloud-related warming. More research on the effects of aerosols is needed still,
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