For the past three years, the vast cap of shining-white ice covering the Arctic has melted away in summer to an area that would have been unbelievable just a decade ago.
Because geothermal produces consistent, base-load power--it doesn't depend on the wind blowing or the sun shining--utilities will pay up to three times more for geothermal electricity than for electricity from an intermittent source, like wind.
"Washington state is the shining non-beacon, " Friedland says.
Automobile traffic crawled on smaller, two-lane roads as power outages left the sleek, electric-powered "bullet trains" -- shining examples of Japan's advanced technology, normally capable of speeds nearing 200 mph -- sitting motionless on their tracks.
Most big galaxies are thought to contain, besides their stars, about ten times as much non-shining material.
From Bhavarlal's meditation spot, the 1, 000-acre complex of Jain Hills itself appears a shining advertisement for what micro-irrigation can achieve.
But his unceremonious ouster from the company he created speaks, too, to how online and mobile coupons -- for a brief, shining moment the darlings of the tech world -- have fallen out of favor.
Thirty-five miles southeast of Las Vegas is a 280-acre shining oasis on a parched desert plain: the power plant called Nevada Solar One.
Sun is shining, small breeze - absolutely a perfect Milford day.
If Warhol's "Orange Marilyn" is, as Sotheby's catalog chatter suggests, the shining icon of 20th-century art, then we can relax -- the bull cycle ain't over.
He did some fine, if bleak, landscapes too, but it was the interiors that sold in his lifetime, and he is best remembered for paintings of the sun shining through curtainless window-panes, casting shadows on carpetless floors.
Now two London-based Arab women, Rana Salam and Malu Halasa, are shining a spotlight on this little-known local speciality, with a new book called The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie.
His biography was 1980s pop-culture lore: A shining star at GM who developed the Pontiac GTO, DeLorean had a flamboyant lifestyle (chest-hair-displaying V-necks, gold chains, a preference for, as he put it, "women who are dramatically less educated than I") that clashed with Detroit's conservative culture.
Think your guests are going to ooh and aah over your shining, new, professional-grade, dual-fuel Viking range?
Now, my fellow Forbes blogger Tim Lee has done us all a great service in shining a bunch of much-needed light on the issue.
According to Zander, the bond that exists between the conductor and his musicians -- which he describes in almost spiritual terms (the purpose of life, he says, is to surround yourself with "shining eyes") -- can be replicated in the workplace between managers and their staff.
The writer has built up his reputation forging drama out of pivotal real-life events, shining the spotlight on memorable moments from our recent past.
By shining a light on the sub-par performance of the sales team, she exposed them to their peers and in fact, to the world at large.
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By shining more light on the pay-setting process, the Dodd-Frank Act will spur companies to improve their compensation programs so they have better prevote pictures to present to their shareholders.
To a greater extent than is usually recognised, Mr Clinton's dominance of the public debate is as much a result of where the spotlight is shining as of his undoubted drawing-power.
Survivors of near-death experiences typically mention shining figures who, at the end of tunnels, greet and help them.
But there are some shining examples, such as the design-construction high school called Studio H in North Carolina.
Burke clinched his spot in the "One Shining Moment" montage with a 30-footer Friday night against Kansas that saved Michigan's season.
Hodder and Stoughton said the story was "an epic war between good and evil" that would "thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining".
Amazon is the first shining ray of the new commercial millennium -- a pure Web play, fleeting as a shooting star, unburdened by any legacy baggage at all.
Once a shining example of Germany's social-market economy at work, Volkswagen is under great pressure to bring its German operation, which still means half of its total workforce, nearer to the free-market values of other firms, and its own subsidiaries, elsewhere.
The fact that most pundits are concentrating more on which film will best the other over the fact that both studios are sacrificing potential opening weekend dollars (and overall dollars, because neither of these films will likely be very leggy) as a matter of pride is a shining symptom of the kind of horse-race analysis that has infected political commentary as well.
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In business news, a high-tech company shows off some shining profits.
This has led to an exemplary social consensus which spares the country such scourges as industrial action while serving as a shining example to other countries for its free-market, decentralised approach.
Rather than ape Grand Theft Auto, why not give us a big open sand-box Medieval city to explore, with pirate-infested waters, knights in shining LEGO armor, and dragons in the nearby wilderness?
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