INTRODUCTION For most developing countries, it appears that biomass, particularly agricultural wastes, has become one of their most promising energy sources. The idea of utilizing the residues from agricultural sectors as primary or secondary energy sources is somewhat attractive sine they are available as free, indigenous and environmentally...
INTRODUCTION The proton exchange membrane PEM fuel cell is a promising alternative to traditional power sources for a wide range of portable, automotive and stationary applications. The advantages of PEM fuel cell include the ability to provide high current densities at relatively low operating temperature, quick start-up, immediate...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RECENTLY I attended a presentation by a famous scientist and Olympic gold medallist. It promised to be an interesting motivational address, but was marred by several errors which could have been easily avoided if there had been more preparation and rehearsal. First, the chairperson's...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A BRAND is the expectations, image, and perceptions it creates in the minds of others, when they see or hear a name, product or logo. Microsoft, Nike, Toyota, Volvo, and Coke tell us how they want us to perceive their products. These brands don't communicate about...
"... STRIPPED OF HIS SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS BECAUSE HE EXERCISED THOSE PROMISED IN THE FIRST." All he wanted was to talk to his representative about a political issue--something supposedly guaranteed by the First Amendment's right to petition clause. True, being an activist with the Minutemen and wanting to...
Why anyone would choose the combative arts as a profession is as confounding as it is crazy. Opting for a life of busted shins, split brows and broken noses just doesn't seem like a rational decision. But the mind of a fighter functions on a different level. To him. each...
LEADING ARTICLE The Government must act radically to unblock the credit markets The debate in the world's capitals this week has been dominated by the prospect of fiscal stimulus plans designed to ward off a disastrous global slump. The incoming US president, Barack Obama, has promised...
The increasing financial cutbacks at Chelsea will claim their first major victim in Frank Arnesen, the club's 2m-a-year chief scout, it emerged last night. The former Denmark international who has overseen Roman Abramovich's lavish spending on the best young players in the world is set to leave before the end...
For those who hoped that Barack Obama would change the world and America's role in it, the reports of his likely candidates for the top foreign policy jobs must come as an awful disappointment. Robert Gates continuing as Defense Secretary, General James Jones as National Security Adviser and Hillary Clinton...
President Bush has more than 2,000 pardon applications piled on his desk. He would pass the task onto Cheney, except that Cheney is one of the applicants. Looks like Obama won't be repealing the Bush tax cuts for rich people. This shows that he is making good...
On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama transitioned from campaign sensation to president-elect. With that new title came a new focus: hammering out a viable economic plan, implementing ways to combat rising unemployment, measuring the consequences of simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and assembling an effective Cabinet, not to mention...
Duty rise plan scotched by oversight on VAT Alistair Darling may be regretting his pledge to drink only tap water during Budget statements after the fuss his latest tax move on whisky has caused. The Chancellor was forced to halve a planned 8 per cent rise in...
Gordon Brown will fight the general election on a promise that Labour will not raise the 20p-in-the-pound rate of income tax, The Independent has learnt. After the Government announced plans to increase the top rate from 40p to 45p on earnings over 150,000 a year from 2011, it was widely...
RACING NO ONE is more aware of the perils of a jockey's profession than a jockey himself. And Dougie Costello, counting the days until his plum ride on Character Building in Saturday's Hennessy Gold Cup, is counting no chickens. "It's only Tuesday," he said yesterday....
Starbucks is to make every cappuccino, mocha and latte it sells in Britain Fairtrade in an attempt to reverse a sales slump that has hit its global expansion. The US coffee chain said that by the end of next year all the espresso-based drinks in its 700...
Hit & Run... Since pagan Christmas was first harnessed to the Christian calendar - to bring some welcome conviviality to the gloom of mid- winter - there's always been someone to complain about its "commercialisation." No sooner was Clement Clarke Moore's poem, "Twas the night before...
RACING NO ONE is more aware of the perils of a jockey's profession than a jockey himself. And Dougie Costello, counting the days until his plum ride on Character Building in Saturday's Hennessy Gold Cup, is counting no chickens. "It's only Tuesday," he said yesterday. "In...
A neo-Fascist party in the far south of Italy has promised to give 1,500 (1,280) to every family in five impoverished villages which names a baby born in 2009 after Benito Mussolini or his wife, Rachele. Il Movimento sociale Fiamma Tricolore describes the initiative as a way...
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker made good on another campaign promise Tuesday, announcing the creation of the Service in the City scholarship program. The scholarship, first mentioned in June 2007 as part of Becker's "blueprint" for education, is designed to help Salt Lake City students become...
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