Butatan innovationsummitorganized by the Department of Energy'shigh-risk, high-reward researchbranch, ARPA-E (modeled afterDarpa), it's not justpower generation that's getting amakeover.
Another disturbing statistic, nearly 50 percent of adult drug users in Afghanistan's north and south gave opium to their children, an indication,Costa says, that a generation of Afghan children are at risk.
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"Unless this policy changes, I feel we're atrisk that a whole generation of young Israelis - who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes - one day will look around and say hey, this country is going nowhere, " he told Reuters news agency in a pre-election interview.
Now, the hope is that a younger generation of politicians may be willing to take a more objective look back, even at the risk of upsetting a half century of orthodoxy.