Newly Discovered Planet Could Be A Watery World Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500 The planet orbits a red dwarf star 40 light-years from our Earth, and its surface may be covered in water. But scientists say conditions on this planet would probably be too extreme to support life as we know it. In China, The Green Rush Is On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:03:00 -0500 China has emerged as the world's top producer of solar panels, and Western companies are eager to cash in on the country's urgent drive for renewable energy resources. It has the Obama administration worried. Mike Reed Celebrates Lost Chicago Jazz Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:14:00 -0500 It's a wonder Reed has time to get behind his drum kit at all, let alone lead two of Chicago's best bands. While his quintet Loose Assembly plays heavily improvised contemporary music, his quartet People, Places & Things has always embraced a strong historical current, paying homage to forgotten or overlooked Chicago music from six decades ago.
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Rebecca Mead: Victor Pinchuk enters the art scene. Rebecca Mead Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000 There are a number of phrases that are typically used to identify Victor Pinchuk, who flew into town last week to attend a party at the Gramercy Park Hotel. “The second-richest man in Ukraine” is one of them; “the owner of six television stations and the . . . Ian Parker: Christopher Plummer returns to the Algonquin Hotel. Ian Parker Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000 For some years in the nineteen-fifties, Christopher Plummer lived in the Algonquin Hotel, on West Forty-fourth Street. One morning last week, a few days before his eightieth birthday, he returned there, from his home, in southwestern Connecticut, and took a round booth at the back of the dining . . . James Surowiecki: Crisis in the Tiger Woods business. James Surowiecki Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000 A recent issue of Forbes features a full-page ad for the consulting firm Accenture with Tiger Woods striding through tall grass. The tagline reads, “The road to high performance isn’t always paved.” To which the obvious rejoinder these days is “Sometimes it runs straight . . .
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