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In surprise to the NSA, Utah Data Center may pay tax on electricity	18.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT Under a bill the 2013 Utah Legislature passed, the National Security Agency’s new Bluffdale data center might be taxed on the millions of dollars of energy it is expected to consume, providing a potential windfall for an obscure state authority. The NSA is protesting the possible tax, even though a Utah attorney said he informed the agency about HB325, and the top U.S. electronic spy agency voiced no opposition until an official emailed Gov. Gary Herbert’s staff weeks after Herbert signed the ... ...
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Shoreline Community College president hired in Arizona	18.5.2013	Seattle Times: Local
Pima Community College in Tucson, Ariz., has lured away Shoreline Community College’s president, Lee Lambert, effective July 1, both colleges announced Friday. Pima is much larger than Shoreline, with six campuses serving 85,000 credit and non-credit students, Lambert said. He will be paid $29
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Cannabis: Colorado's budding industry	18.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Dispensaries selling cannabis bath salts, 'bud-tenders' advising on blends, even a marijuana university. As Colorado gears up for legalisation, we get the dope on Denver's 'green rush' I'm being driven around Denver by America's first professional stoner. William Breathes is the marijuana critic for the award-winning local paper Westword . Every week for the past three years, his boss has been paying for his weed. "I don't really drink wine, so if this reference is a bit off, please forgive me, but if you really like merlots, you know what a merlot should taste like," he says, drumming the steering wheel for emphasis. "A lot of marijuana strains are like that. If I'm offered Sour Diesel, and it doesn't look or smell like it should, I know it." This morning, like every morning, Breathes woke up and got stoned. Now he's driving me through a snowstorm. Getting stoned in Denver is as unexceptional as getting a cup of coffee or a beer. In some ways, it's easier: there are more marijuana ...
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Annise Parker: The Modern American Boomtown	18.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: Opinion
Houston's mayor—an openly gay Democrat friendly to business—talks about why her city is the country's fastest growing and most diverse.
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Visions of College, Colored by Money	17.5.2013	NY Times: Most Emailed
Themes of money, working, class, affluence and the economy increasingly figure in college application essays.
As Tesla taps capital markets for cash, share price could top $100	17.5.2013	LA Times: Business
As Tesla taps capital markets for cash, share price could top $100
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Switching supplier isn't enough - we need to talk about energy consumption \| Katherine Portilla	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Ed Davey needs to do more on cutting energy consumption than the Green Deal. Looking to Germany would be a start So Ed Davey, climate secretary, wants to "want to turn the non-switchers into savvy switchers", he said on Friday , talking about the importance of driving down energy bills. But switching supplier is never going to be enough. We need to start taking energy consumption seriously. The UK currently has a handful of policies in place on this, in an attempt to catch-up with our European rivals on efforts to rein in energy consumption. The majority of UK energy programs are aimed at the housing stock. UK homes are among the least efficient in Europe, burdened by poor insulation, draughts and inefficient heating systems. They account for nearly a third of the nation's total energy use. The Green Deal aims to tackle this issue. It's a finance scheme that helps people pay for energy-efficiency improvement in their home. It gets around the question of "why bother improving my home if ...
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Royal Society Young People's Book Prize shortlist announced \| @GrrlScientist	17.5.2013	Guardian: Science
Finally, what I know you've all been waiting for: the six shortlisted young people's science books have been selected and are now in the mail to hundreds of children across the UK who will select the winner of the 2013 Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize! Are you a scientist who was inspired by a children's book to pursue your passion? As a member of this year's panel of judges, I freely admit that I am jealous of children today – jealous because when I was a child, I had nothing close to this wealth of science books to read. In fact, I cannot remember reading any children's science books in my youth. As it was, from almost the moment I learned to read, I was reading science fiction. The only science-y book I remember reading as a child was Alfred Russel Wallace's engaging The Malay Archipelago , a book that strongly influenced my career choice and inspired my lifelong passion for the flora and fauna of the South Pacific. (I still own that book; it is a treasured friend that has ...
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Now, 'artificial forest' for solar water splitting (Cached)	17.5.2013	New Kerala: World News
Washington, May 17 : An important advance in the race to develop carbon-neutral renewable energy sources has been achieved.
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First U.S. Company To Enter Export Market For Natural Gas	17.5.2013	NPR: Morning Edition
With supplies high and prices at historic lows, there's debate whether companies should be allowed to export the gas overseas for a higher price. Many energy companies have applied for government approval to ship liquefied natural gas worldwide. So far, only one company has gotten a license to do that in the past 30 years..
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Caribbean Talks Conservation on Branson's Island	17.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Americas
Caribbean Talks Conservation on Branson's Island
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Australia's 'unpopular' carbon price isn't to blame for Labor's poor polling \| Alexander White	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Claims that Julia Gillard's unpopularity were linked to her introduction of carbon pricing in 2012 don't stack up Since the disappointment of Copenhagen in 2009 , Australia has witnessed a concerted scare campaign against action on global warming. The scare campaign has been led by senior commentators in (Murdoch owned) News Limited papers, by conservative radio shock-jocks on the airwaves, and in parliament by extremist opposition party leader Tony Abbott. From the moment Australia's carbon pricing legislation package, the Clean Energy Future Act, was announced Tony Abbott has barnstormed from one end of Australia to another, declaring a "blood oath" that repealing the carbon price would be his first priority if elected: "I am giving you the most definite commitment any politician can give that this tax will go. This is a pledge in blood." Behind this incendiary phrase is Abbott's own climate change policy, a mishmash of ineffective handouts to industry to "clean up" polluting power ...
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Bangladesh, Myanmar relieved as cyclone fizzles	17.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Bangladesh, Myanmar relieved as cyclone fizzles
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Cyclone fades without causing significant damage after Bangladesh, Myanmar prepared for worse	17.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

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Sun shoots solar flares into space (Cached)	17.5.2013	New Kerala: Andhra Pradesh
Washington, May 17 : The sun has put on a spectacular light show in recent days, firing off solar flares and coronal mass ejections that have sent particles from the sun hurtling into space at speeds of over 2,000 km per second.
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Specialized Aims to Make Bicycling Less of a Drag With New Wind Tunnel	17.5.2013	Wired Top Stories
Specialized Aims to Make Bicycling Less of a Drag With New Wind Tunnel
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Best of the Web Today: What Would Bulworth Do?	17.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: Opinion
Barack Obama's bizarre movie idol.
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Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief	17.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief
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Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief	17.5.2013	AP Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the nation's new energy secretary....
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Energy Costs Move Up Europe's Agenda	17.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: World
Some executives at the annual European Business Summit say the real challenge for the EU is to prevent a further deindustrialization of the continent.
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