Improving the sustainability of water treatment systems: Opportunities for innovation Energy Bulletin | RILES | In Brief There is growing recognition of the need for increased access to drinkable water across the world and for water treatment approaches that improve the quality of the delivered water and re-establish a balance between human and natural systems. In the current paradigm, however, larg...
Kafka's papers get tangled in a legal limbo The News & Observer | JERUSALEM -- Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of the nightmarish visions created by the author himself. | The papers, retrieved f...
Renaissance Italy coded in colour Gulf News | My novel, The Botticelli Secret, is a detective story that travels through the most beautiful cities of Renaissance Italy. At its heart is Botticelli's famous painting Primavera, which hangs in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. | Does the painting conceal...
It's Always a Travesty of Art, and Marin Shakes Makes the Most of It The Examiner | SF Performing Arts Examiner rates this: Cat Thompson as Gwendolyn, Julian Lopez-Morillas as Bennett and Alexandra Matthew as Cecily Photo by Morgan Cowin | Tom Stoppard's play Travesties, is densely populated with clever witticisms and somewhat...
AP News in Brief Star Tribune | BP works to fix valve leak on cap that could choke off oil leaking into Gulf of Mexico | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP engineers working to choke the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico found a leak on a line attached to the side of the new well cap ...
FUND VIEW-Swisscanto cuts banks; focuses on pharma, energy The Guardian * Swisscanto becomes underweight on financial sector * Sees value in pharma, energy, capital goods stocks * Prefers media sector over retail, likes WPP By Atul Prakash LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - Zurich-based Swisscanto Asset Management has cut its po...
Banned oil trader applies for Swiss job Money Week | Steve Perkins, the Essex oil trader fined and banned for sending the price of crude to an 8-month high while drunk, is set to join a firm of commodity brokers based in Switzerland. | The Financial Services Authority fined the 34-year-old £72,000 o...
Turkish and Israeli Officials Meet Secretly on Raid Crisis The New York Times | TEL AVIV — The Turkish foreign minister and an Israeli cabinet member met secretly in Europe on Wednesday to try to defuse the crisis that erupted after Israel’s deadly raid on a Turkish aid boat bound for Gaza. Related | Cargo of Turki...
BP to try well kill Tuesday, Congress debates reforms The Star | BILOXI, Miss. (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as U.S. lawmakers prepared to vote on reforms that would put tougher restrictions on offshore drilling. Drill ships and response vessels work in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast line while attempting to drill relief wells at t...
NASA's Mars Rover may not survive The Examiner | Harsh conditions on Mars might damage the Mars Rover NASA If you like this ... NASA's unmanned spy plane Global Hawk conducts science missions Astronomy research from an airplane F-18 used as a chase aircraft Three NASA airplanes intend to study tropical cyclones this summer ER-2 is a high-altitude research plane View all » | NASA mission c...
