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...simply to use less heat - without freezing to death. Trethewey notes that many homes are overheated, equipped with boilers or heating systems that are far stronger than necessary. If a building uses about 100,000 BTU of heat, it doesn't need a system that supplies twice that - yet that's how many buildings operate. "It would be correct for about two percent of the year, and overpower you for the rest," says Trethewey. "It's like a V12 engine in a Volkswagen - it leads to wasted energy...
...current practice, is that abusing the patent system doesn't necessarily help Big Pharma in the long run. Generics account for just over 40% of the market by volume in Europe, against more than 60% in the U.S. But over the past decade, the U.S. pharmaceutical market has grown twice as fast as the European market. According to IMS data, 65% of sales of new medicines marketed since 2002 are generated on the U.S. market, compared to 24% on the European market...
...hardly the biggest charitable sum that China has seen. Property magnate Zhu Mengyi has given away $160 million in the past five years (and the octogenarian entrepreneur Yu Pengnian has set aside well over twice that for the provision of cataract operations). But the One Foundation is not about billionaires. It is about a celebrity who has forsworn a pleasant life of premieres and parties, and the ordinary people who support him with their pennies. It is for them, perhaps, that Li places an almost neurotic stress on the One Foundation's "transparency" and "professionalism." He says he wants...
...insufficient even for the Church of England, whose insurers Ecclesiastical have now issued SmartWater kits to 16,500 churches. Last year churches were stripped of $18 million-worth of lead roofing, lightning rods and even bells. "If thieves know about it - and they do already - they will think twice about targeting churches," says Ecclesiastical spokesman Chris Pitt. That's the kind of thinking SmartWater is convinced more secular enterprises will embrace...
...your clients aware that Barack Obama was elected and that he wants to close Guantanamo? They are. One client, Mr. [Lakhdar] Boumediene, the lead plaintiff, has been on hunger strike for two years. Twice a day they strap him in a chair, force his head back and put about two liters of the liquid protein Ensure down a tube through his nose into his stomach. It's a very brutal procedure, but they're determined that he not fast himself to death, so they do this to him. [When he found out Obama was elected] he was so excited that...