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Wired, 10.11.08 23:34 UTC

Solar Rig Brings Green Ice to Margaritaville

SAN FRANCISCO — "Ice is civilization!" Or so Harrison Ford's character cries in The Mosquito Coast, the story of an inventor who tries to bring a kerosene-powered ice maker to Honduras. That movie ...
Catapult Design  The Mosquito Coast  greenhouse gas emissions  energy-hogging refrigeration systems  chemical absorbent  attractive technology  +15 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 10.11.08 16:02 UTC

Quick fix for state budget problems a long shot

(11-10) 04:00 PST Sacramento -- Don't bet on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature solving California's budget mess in a special legislative session this month, even if their failure to act ...
SACRAMENTO  Fresno County  California  golf lessons  oil production  appliance repair  +7 more

Wired, 02.10.08 01:34 UTC

Multitouch Is Unlikely to Be a Big Hit on Notebooks

Apple's iPhone is making multitouch all the rage on mobile phones but laptop makers are not rushing to add the technology to traditional notebooks. Multitouch, which lets users control applications ...
Android  Fujitsu  Samsung  Nintendo  Google  Interface Analysis Associates  +7 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 16.09.08 04:02 UTC

State budget deal? Not so fast ...

(09-15) 20:22 PDT Sacramento - -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened today to veto a state budget brokered by legislative leaders, arguing that fiscal reforms in the compromise spending plan do ...
Oakland  Santa Cruz  Fresno County  The Chronicle  Matt David  Pro Tem Don Perata  +12 more

USA Today, 09.09.08 04:02 UTC

Survey: Public transit pressures could hurt riders

Cash-strapped public transit systems are cutting services and raising fares even as more Americans ditch their gas-guzzling cars for trains and buses, a survey of transit agencies out Tuesday finds.
Louisville  Ohio  Public transit systems  gas-guzzling cars  foreign oil  Nina Walfoort  +12 more

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 08.09.08 04:32 UTC

'Area Man, in Contest, Wins Bad Writing Prize' *

Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath ...
Washington, D.C.  Piscataway  St. Petersburg  Petaluma  New York  New Jersey  +25 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 28.08.08 04:32 UTC

Clintons are powerful weapon in Obama arsenal

(08-27) 20:45 PDT Denver - -- Hillary buttons are selling at a deep discount on the streets of Denver, but the most powerful political couple in American history has emerged from the Democratic ...
Denver  SAN FRANCISCO  South Carolina  California  United States  Bill Clinton  +18 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 16.08.08 03:01 UTC

For Gov. Schwarzenegger, it's make-or-break moment

(08-15) 19:33 PDT Sacramento - -- When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger swept into office five years ago, the former movie star promised to "blow up boxes" of state government, move beyond partisan ...
SACRAMENTO  Los Angeles  The Chronicle  Pat Brown  Barbara O'Connor  John J. Pitney Jr.  +13 more

CNN Top Stories, 14.08.08 09:30 UTC

And the winner of the worst writing of 2008 is ...

SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- A grotesque comparison of a steamy love affair to a New York City street has won a Washington man this year's grand prize in an annual contest of bad writing.
Washington  New York  San Jose  Piscataway  New York City  California  +11 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 11.08.08 21:03 UTC

Student aid requests soar as economy plummets

(08-10) 19:16 PDT -- Record numbers of college students are lining up for financial aid - and asking for more of it - as the nation's economic woes hit campuses across the country. Nationally, 8.9 ...
Oakland  California  University of California  East Bay  South Bay  universities systems  +25 more
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