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...tissues and some Godiva. In a slight concession to modern pop, Christina Aguilera also gets her props on the album, with a new song "Don't Make Me Love You," which is sure to slam Mandy Moore from the MTV countdown. Other artists include Olive, Solar Twins, Manu Chao and an instrumental by Gabriel Yared. All very eclectic music, all very cutting-edge, a conglomerate of music that should make for a rather interesting sound in a romantic comedy...
...Powering Up Homes will tap energy from efficient neighborhood generators, thermal-mass cooling ponds and solar collectors embedded in the streets...
...During solar maximums, space weather becomes stormy. The normally benign sun pounds the earth mercilessly with ultraviolet radiation, X rays and floods of charged particles, distorting the planet's protective magnetic field and inducing powerful electric currents that can wreak havoc not only with spacecraft but also with many aspects of terrestrial life...
...solar storm knocked out Hydro-Quebec transformers, leaving 6 million people in eastern Canada and the U.S. Northeast without electricity for nine hours. The same storm disrupted shortwave radio transmissions, crippled Coast Guard loran navigation systems and had automatic garage doors opening on their...
...years since, we have become increasingly dependent on satellite-based communications, and even off-peak solar outbursts have caused trouble. They are suspected in damage to at least a dozen satellites, and the failure of the Galaxy IV satellite during a 1998 solar storm that silenced 80% of North America's pagers. In the past four years alone, says Chris Kunstadter, of U.S. Aviation Underwriters, space losses may have exceeded $550 million...