Samsung Electronics, the world's largest producer of memory chips, closed its wafer-fabrication plant and gave its employees one week off to enjoy sun and sand.

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Last month, Sharp and the Italian utility ENEL agreed to build a solar-power plant in Italy, allowing ENEL to sell large volumes of sun-generated energy.

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The groundbreaking ceremony for Kia's first U.S. plant, in Georgia, has been delayed because Chief Executive Chung Eui-Sun, son and heir apparent of the chairman, has been banned from leaving Korea during the current investigation.

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Within their bodies they harbor highly productive algae -- a form of marine plant life -- that can "fix" carbon, use the energy of the sun to conduct photosynthesis and produce sugars.

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