 | | Renewable energy, key to future needs: Wood |
 WITH abundant sunlight
available across GCC countries
for most of the day, they
must make efforts to make
maximum use of the potential
to generate power,
Siemens Renewable Energy
Division Regional Director
Adrian Wood has said.
Talking to Qatar Tribune
recently, Wood said that
global power consumption
will increase from the present
20,300 TWh to... |
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|  |  | | Egypt´s Fledgling Democracy |
| IN Cairo last week I found myself
buying a couple of "I love Egypt"
T-shirts. When a woman came up
to me and, with much the same
solemn pushiness as a squeegee
merchant, began to paint the colours of
the Egyptian flag on my hand, I did not
resist. Speakers in one corner were
working up a thin crowd, promising
retribution for the ancien regime, justice
to the masses. Indifferent to them... |
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| |  | | VIRGIN GALACTIC´S
SPACE ADVENTURE |
| Q: We´re writing this email
from a high school entrepreneurship
class in the
United States. We would
like to know what inspired
you to venture into commercial
space travel. At what point do you
expect to turn a profit on Virgin
Galactic?
- Future entrepreneurs, East
Greenwich High School, via
Entrepreneur.com and American
Express OPEN Forum
AA: In 1988, in the aftermath of the
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Syria’s oil output rises 1.2% in Q1
AMMAN Syria produced some 387,000 barrels a day of crude oil during the first quarter of this year, an increase of 1.2 percent compared with the year earlier period, the Syrian oil ministry said.
“The country’s oil production in the first three months of 2011 increased by 4,700 barrels a day to 387,000 barrels a day, over figures for the same period last year,” the ministry said.
(ZAWYA DOW JONES)
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