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As prices rise for fossil fuels and worries grow about their contribution to global warming, solar thermal plants are being viewed as a renewable power source with huge potential.
(Isaac Brekke/The New York Times)The technology involves covering acres of desert with mirrors that focus intense sunlight on a fluid, heating it enough to make steam. The steam turns a turbine and generates electricity. Some experts say that solar thermal plants could meet most of the galloping growth in power demand in Phoenix, Las Vegas and the rest of the southwestern United States. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/business/06solar.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin)
University of Sheffield Professor Noel Sharkey is concerned that we are beginning to see the first steps towards an international robot arms race. He warns that it may not be long before robots become a standard terrorist weapon to replace the suicide bomber. (Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226213451.htm)
- Killer Military Robots Pose Latest Threat To Humanity, Robotics Expert Warns
Reuters - At least 19 people were killed and 25 others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew up his car in a market just outside Iraq’s western city of Falluja on Tuesday, police said.
- Car bomb near Iraq's Falluja kills 19: police
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising energy costs drove up U.S. producer prices last month, while the trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in June on stronger exports, according to reports on Tuesday suggesting the Federal Reserve will remain cautious about cutting interest rates.
- Inflation gauge ticks up as trade gap narrows
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Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center opens its doors (AP via Yahoo! News)Charlotte St. Martin, executive director of the Broadway League, believes in giving consumers what they want. Out of that idea was born the Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center, now up and running in Times Square.
To get kids thinking . (The Sacramento Bee)Fleeting inspiration, elusive bits of knowledge, information and insight gained through the years — those are things that go into books for young people written by the one-named author Avi. One of the images by Peter Catalanotto that illustrate Avi’s “The Fighting Ground,” about a 13-year-old boy involved in a 1778 Revolutionary War battle. Says Avi: “It’s a hard story, and I made it as .
