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…s capacity generated in 2010 and percent of total generation; its capacity factor; and its long-term levelized cost for new construction, estimated by the Energy Information Agency. Capacity factors are important since they measure the intermittency of each source (capacity facto...

… —Vladimir Putin using tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience. Successful nonviolent democratic revolutions are not new. Perhaps the first color revolution took place in 1974, when a dictatorship in Portugal was overthrown by military officers who drew on the support of civil...

…enemy - seemed to animate, constantly, the progress of these two fights. Once, before I gave a speech to an audience of newly promoted one-star generals in 2010, a four-star general pulled me aside fora moment. He explained that I’d be speaking to a crowd of officers who had come...

…he time spent with them, I had gotten to understand a few of their quirky ways. Even if I didn’t agree with them, they knew I would for their sake of opinion. What did it matter anyways I thought, I had been degraded in every other physical way what's the difference from taking t...

…say no. We ended up arranging a direct source of fuel supply to Jenin, on the northern edge of the West Bank, and built new terminals to handle it. We facilitated construction permits for a new industrial zone. For a conference of international economists and business people, we...

…were placed in opposition. This 45-year struggle occurred under the threat of nuclear disaster, which gave it an aspect new in human history, the potential for complete destruction. It was possible to find sober-minded theorists pondering problems like this one: “Let us assume th...

Alphabet (Buy, $1,025 PO) Stock view: Expect solid 1Q revs., but loss of non-GAAP reconciliation a concern New concerns have been raised on the YouTube advertiser pullback, but with the cuts in spending surfacing primarily in the back half of March, we anticipate only modest imp...

…ry, and a series of accelerating social trends suggested that the recent improvements would hold firm and expand as the new millennium dawned. There was, to begin with, a strong identification of free societies with free markets. The degree of economic freedom varied from one so...

…lls “a card-carrying member of the Harvard establishment.” It is a dis- tinction that did not come easily, even 36 THE NEW YORKER, DECEMBER 12, 2011 though he has received millions of dol- lars in funding for his projects from the National Institutes of Health. “The goal is to...

James PATTERSON approval, on his own planes to New York and to Little Saint Jeff's, where the locals have taken to referring to Epstein’s 727 as the Lolita Express. There are other restrictions, of course, that Epstein is sup- posed to abide by. He has to provide the state of F...

…ong-lasting structures. Malls, democracies, war zones.”° Pushing power into networks, we can see already, creates whole new arrangements. Some are as unimaginable to us now as a voting booth would have been to an Egyptian slave. When we say that ours is a revolutionary age, it’s...

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…gh schools around Palm Beach County. Epstein would pay the girls for massages and offer them further money to bring him new girls every time he was at his home in Palm Beach, according to police reports. The girls, now in their late 20s and early 30s, allege in a series of fede...

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…l resistance -- and outright opposition -- from the countries in the region. That resistance is likely to come from the new regimes emerging from the Arab uprisings, as well as a number of Gulf monarchies. Indeed, the political trends in the region are unlikely to conform to the...