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When Islam Karimov became the president of Uzbekistan in 1990, his country was officially called the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and was part of the USSR. In 1991 he declared Uzbekistan an independent state and maintained his presidency in an election that, according to every international group that monitors elections, was fixed. That has been [...] Lately the U.S. Federal Government has been making a lot of noise about green fuel. It started with President Bush’s comment about “switch grass” in his State of the Union Address. He got a few chuckles out of that. While we’ve all heard of using corn to make ethanol, and the importance of trading our [...] Inexhaustible energy sources are hard to find. With some basic maintenance, wind turbines can run indefinitely. “… a thick, gooey water-in-oil emulsion, or ‘mousse,’ often forms on the surface after oil spills…” The United States has a lot of illumination, and as the home to the inventor of the electric light, that makes plenty of sense. It’s too bright to see the stars in most highly populated areas. It’s not just the astronomers who are complaining, although surely the migrating birds and sea turtles would complain if [...] |
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