TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| No Mere Walk in the Park If the commissioner sees a flower trampler or a dog where it doesn’t belong, he steps in, with a modest “I work for the parks department.” nytimes.com |
Obama Favors Plug-in Hybrids over Hydrogen Vehicles When President George W. Bush was in the White House, he hyped hydrogen as the future of the automobile industry. But with President Obama now on the job, the next major step for the nation's cars and trucks comes with a plug.Obama laid out the goal of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015 during the summer of 2008, as he campaigned for the presidency. It was ambitious then but may prove even more difficult now that a slumping economy has brought two of Detroit's Big Three automakers into bankruptcy court and dragged new car and truck sales to under 10 million a year--well below the high-water mark of roughly 17 million in 2005. [More] rss.sciam.com |
L. L. Bean Tries on a New Look As camping has come into vogue, L. L. Bean, like other outdoor companies, is planning an updated look with a collection called L. L. Bean Signature. nytimes.com |
Hurricane Forcing: Can Tropical Cyclones Be Stopped? Tropical cyclones, or hurricanes as they are known in the regions bordering the Atlantic Ocean, are among nature's fiercest manifestations, capable of releasing as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs. Hurricane Katrina leveled New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast leaving more than 1,800 people dead; Typhoon Morakot killed more people and did more damage to Taiwan than any other storm there in recorded history; and Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar (Burma) and resulted in at least 146,000 fatalities. [More] rss.sciam.com |
For Cape Cod Wind Farm, New Hurdle Is Spiritual Two Indian tribes successfully argued that a wind-power project would impede their ritual greeting of the sunrise. nytimes.com |