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isabotage3 writes:
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArchive/dec2006 /champagnescience.php
Everything you need to know about champagne in time for New Year's — From how to maximize your bubbles to why bubbles follow certain patterns and then suddenly change to when the time is right to stop studying your bubbly and drink up.
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isabotage3 writes:
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArchive/sep2006 /calioiltax.php
Still smarting from California's recent enactment of emissions caps, the oil industry is confronting another assault in the Golden State — this one bankrolled in part by Silicon Valley tycoons pushing to fund conservation and alternative-energy initiatives with a tax on oil output.
Slightly more than half the money raised by the Prop 87 tax would be earmarked to help cut gasoline and diesel use. Another 27 percent would be put toward alternative-energy research at California universities. The remainder would be used to help start-ups, retrain energy workers in new fields, and for administration.
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isabotage3 writes:
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArchive/sep2006 /buildarobot.php
After more than eight grueling hours of screwing parts together, my arm was sore and my mind numb. But when the 13-inch-tall robot finally took its first teetering steps, I was moved like a proud parent.
You don't have to be a scientist, or even very smart, to play with Manoi AT01. But there's a catch: A lot of work is required to get it going.
The $1,260 machine, which can walk, wave its arms and do other simple moves, comes in a kit that requires assembly — a sprawling, mind-boggling concoction of matchbox-size motors, plastic Lego-like parts, twisted wiring, 200 tiny screws and a 100-page manual.
