Not a single building on Breezy Point, Queens, has been left unscathed - first by the storm surge that rolled in and battered the community and then by the fire that ravaged blocks and blocks of homes on the barrier island. [...] Breezy Point lost 37 residents in 9/11. More died next door in Bell Harbor a few months later when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed. But even with this latest tragedy, many told CBS News they are not leaving. They will rebuild.
Breezy Point lost 37 residents in 9/11. More died next door in Bell Harbor a few months later when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed. But even with this latest tragedy, many told CBS News they are not leaving. They will rebuild.
More than 6 million homes and businesses were still without power, mostly in New York and New Jersey. Electricity was out as far west as Wisconsin and as far south as the Carolinas. The scale of the challenge could be seen across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where National Guard trucks rolled into heavily flooded Hoboken to deliver ready-to-eat meals and other supplies and to evacuate people from their condo high-rises, brownstones and other homes.
The scale of the challenge could be seen across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where National Guard trucks rolled into heavily flooded Hoboken to deliver ready-to-eat meals and other supplies and to evacuate people from their condo high-rises, brownstones and other homes.
"Carbon has the potential to deliver high performance at a low cost," said study senior author Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a working solar cell that has all of the components made of carbon." [...] Unlike rigid silicon solar panels that adorn many rooftops, Stanford's thin film prototype is made of carbon materials that can be coated from solution. "Perhaps in the future we can look at alternative markets where flexible carbon solar cells are coated on the surface of buildings, on windows or on cars to generate electricity," Bao said.
Unlike rigid silicon solar panels that adorn many rooftops, Stanford's thin film prototype is made of carbon materials that can be coated from solution. "Perhaps in the future we can look at alternative markets where flexible carbon solar cells are coated on the surface of buildings, on windows or on cars to generate electricity," Bao said.
The sleek new car that Putin and other top Russian leaders will soon be riding around in, on Kremlin orders, is an updated version of the old ZiL limousines that carried Soviet Politbureau members to and from their dachas back in the days of the USSR. But Mikhail Sattarov, director of special production at ZiL, says the new limo, which has been six years in the making, will be much more than one of those clunky old Soviet armored soapboxes that can nowadays be seen only in newsreels.
But Mikhail Sattarov, director of special production at ZiL, says the new limo, which has been six years in the making, will be much more than one of those clunky old Soviet armored soapboxes that can nowadays be seen only in newsreels.
Western Tradition Partnership, or WTP, sent the IRS a letter in 2008 asking the agency to expedite the group's request for recognition of its tax-exempt status. The letter said that without it, the group's principle donor, Jacob Jabs, would pull a planned grant of $300,000. But Jabs, who runs Colorado's largest furniture retailer, said on Monday he had never pledged money to the group, and never even been in contact with them until press stories appeared naming him.
But Jabs, who runs Colorado's largest furniture retailer, said on Monday he had never pledged money to the group, and never even been in contact with them until press stories appeared naming him.
After surveying 21, 797 people in 21 countries, BBC found that an “average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney.” The country that swoons the most for Obama is France—72% of those polled in the country expressed a preference for Obama. Countries that also had large margins in favor of Obama include Spain, Indonesia, the United Kingdom and Australia. Even without huge margins, almost every country polled expressed more support for Obama.