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  1. Presidential Candidates in 1996 (Internet Publishing Technologies)
      Provides information on candidates for President in 1996. 11-01

  2. Dewey - John: Democracy and Education (Institute for Learning Technologies)
      Provides digital text projects. 10-09

  3. Educational Software for Very Young Children (High-Value Technologies)
      Sells software for teachers, students and very young children.

  4. Read-Aloud Stories (Digitalbread Technologies - Walker)
      Scripts for schools provides stories that can be read aloud or sung, including eight offerings. Does not yet work with Netscape. 2-01.

  5. Geometry Formulas (Geometry Technologies - ScienceU.com)
      Provides formulas for Lines, Distances, Angles, Concurrence and Collinearity, Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons, Circles, Conics, Cartesian, Cylindrical, Spherical Coordinates, Rotation and Polar Coordinates, Cartesian Symmetries, Direction Angles and Cosines, Planes, Regular Polyhedra, Cylinders, Cones, Spheres, and Torus. 5-01

  6. Platonic and Archimedean Solids (Geometry Technologies - ScienceU.com)
      Provides diagrams of the Platonic Cube, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron, Octahedron, and Tetrahedron. Includes diagrams of the Archimedean Cubeoctahedron, Icosidodecahedron, Rhombicubeoctahedron, Rhombicosidodecahedron, Rhombitruncated Cubeoctahedron, Rhombitruncated Icosidodecahedron, Snub Cube, Snub Dodecahedron, Truncated Cube, Truncated Dodecahedron, Truncated Icosahedron, Truncated Octahedron, and Truncated Tetrahedron. 5-01

  7. Tilings and Tesselations (Geometry Technologies - ScienceU.com)
      Provides different kinds of tiling, the math behind them, how to make them, and classify them. 5-01

  8. Tetrahedral Puzzle (Geometry Technologies - ScienceU.com)
      "The object of this puzzle is to reconstruct a cube from ten tetrahedral pieces." 5-01

  9. Software for Geometry (Geometry Technologies - ScienceU.com)
      Provides software for geometry. 5-01

  10. Planets from Different Views (Geometry Technologies - ScienceU.com)
      Provides views of planets, the sun, and the moon at different distances and from different angles. 5-01

  11. Alternative Energy Businesses (Momentum Technologies - Source Guide)
      Provides listings of businesses by location, product type, business type, and business name. 5-01

  12. Solar Photovoltaic Retail Businesses by Location (Momentum Technologies - Source Guide)
      Provides a listing of retail businesses selling photovoltaic modules, by location. 5-01

  13. Flywheel Energy Storage Businesses (Momentum Technologies)
      Provides sources of flywheel energy storage systems. Flywheels may be an alternative to batteries for storage.

  14. LED Lamp (Koncept Technologies)
      Provides a variety of Z-Bar LED lamps. Awesome Library does not endorse this product but provides it as an example. A quote from a consumer: "I don't think it would make a very good reading lamp, but it's great for desktop paperwork." 04-08

  15. Tire Recyclers (Lehigh Technologies)
      Lehigh Technologies converts auto tires to a powder, which is then resold as a rubber base for other tires, paints, and other products. 11-08

  16. Biographical Searches (S9 Technologies) 7-01

  17. World Trek - Odyssey
      The mission is "To educate youth about diverse communities around the world, to empower youth through service learning to change locally and globally, and to actively engage students and teachers in the use of emerging technologies as a tool for education and social action. In service of this mission, the Odyssey will link students via the World Wide Web to a team of volunteers traveling and performing community service throughout the world."

  18. Film and Television for Grades 11 - 12 (British Columbia Ministry of Education)
      Provides lessons on Exploration and Analysis, Drama Skills, Context (Social, Cultural, and Historical) and (Industry), Technologies and Processes. These materials are called an Integrated Resource Package. 2-01

  19. Formative Leadership (MiddleWeb.com - Ash and Persall)
      "In the information economy, most successful organizations must be knowledge-based, value-added enterprises. Such an environment requires schools to be true learning organizations where students are engaged in challenging and interesting academic work and where teachers and administrators are collaboratively involved in learning about the most effective instructional strategies and technologies."

      "Leadership is not role-specific, reserved only for administrators. Rather the job of the school leader is to fashion learning opportunities for the faculty and staff in order that they might develop into productive leaders. This theory of leadership supports our view of the teacher as leader and the principal as the leader of leaders. It is grounded in the belief that educators should enhance not only student learning but also the learning of the adults within the school." 7-02

  20. New Video Spying Technology for the Military (CBS News - Sniffen)
      "DARPA described a hypothetical terrorist shooting at a bus stop and a hypothetical bombing at a disco one month apart in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, a city with slightly more residents than Miami."

      CTS should be able to track the day's movements for every vehicle that passed each scene in the hour before the attack, DARPA said. Even if there were 2,000 such vehicles and none showed up twice, the software should automatically compare their routes and find vehicles with common starting and stopping points."

      "Joseph Onek of the Open Society Institute, a human rights group, said current law that permits the use of cameras in public areas may have to be revised to address the privacy implications of these new technologies."

      " 'It's one thing to say that if someone is in the street he knows that at any single moment someone can see him,' Onek said. 'It's another thing to record a whole life so you can see anywhere someone has been in public for 10 years.' " 7-03

  21. Rumsfeld, Donald - Former and Current Secretary of Defense (U.S. Department of Defense)
      "He served as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Defense, the youngest in the country's history (1975-1977)."

      "From 1977 to 1985 he served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and then Chairman of G.D. Searle & Co., a worldwide pharmaceutical company. The successful turnaround there earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981)."

      "Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Instrument Corporation from 1990 to 1993. General Instrument Corporation was a leader in broadband transmission, distribution, and access control technologies. Until being sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, Inc., a pharmaceutical company."

      "Before returning for his second tour as Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld chaired the bipartisan U.S. Ballistic Missile Threat Commission, in 1998, and the U.S. Commission to Assess National Security Space Management and Organization, in 2000."

      "In 1977, Mr. Rumsfeld was awarded the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 1-04

  22. Fuel Cells Based Cars (Ford Motor Co.)
      "Sustainable Mobility Technologies' six prototype vehicles represent Ford Motor Company's dedication to preserving the environment. One is already in real-world, limited use. The electric delivery truck is being used by the U.S. Postal Service in communities around the country." 1-04

  23. New Fuel Cell Technology for Phones (ABC News)
      "On Wednesday, New York-based Medis Technologies will demonstrate what it claims is the first commercial portable fuel cell, solving many of the problems that have plagued developers over the past few years." 3-05

  24. Voting Machines Study (CalTech-MIT)
      "This report examines the use of voting equipment and the incidence of spoiled and unmarked ballots associated with that equipment. We call the rate of spoiled and unmarked ballots the residual vote rate. The residual vote rate is not a pure measure of voter error. If voting technologies are not producing voter mistakes or confusion, the residual vote rate should be unrelated to equipment. The study covers election results from over 2700 counties and municipalities in the 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000 presidential elections." 3-05

  25. NASA's Scientific Ballooning Program (NASA)
      "Large unmanned helium balloons provide NASA with an inexpensive means to place payloads into a space environment. The unique capabilities of this program are crucial for the development of new technologies and payloads for NASA's space flight missions." 6-05

  26. -07-28-05 European Union Seeks Mandatory Limits on Gases (BBC News)
      "The European Union says it will push for legally-binding global restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.

      "A spokeswoman's comments came after the announcement of a voluntary pact, based on new technology, between the US and five Asia-Pacific states."

      "She also told BBC News that the new pact is unlikely to bring a significant reduction in emissions."

      "The new pact will allow signed-up countries - currently the United States, Australia, China, India, South Korea and Japan - to set goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions individually, with no enforcement mechanism."

      "The core approach is to develop clean technologies, such as low-emission coal-fired power stations, which can be used in developing countries as their energy needs increase." 7-05

  27. -Coal Gasification (DOE.gov) star
      The United States generates over 50 percent of its electricity from coal plants. The USA is number one in the world in coal reserves.

      "A coal gasification power plant, however, typically gets dual duty from the gases it produces. First, the coal gases, cleaned of impurities, are fired in a gas turbine - much like natural gas - to generate one source of electricity. The hot exhaust of the gas turbine is then used to generate steam for a more conventional steam turbine-generator. This dual source of electric power, called a 'combined cycle,' is much more efficient in converting coal's energy into usable electricity. The fuel efficiency of a coal gasification power plant can be boosted to 50 percent or more."

      "Higher efficiencies translate into more economical electric power and potential savings for ratepayers. A more efficient plant also uses less fuel to generate power, meaning that less carbon dioxide is produced. In fact, coal gasification power processes under development by the Energy Department could cut the formation of carbon dioxide by 40 percent or more compared to today's conventional coal-burning plant."

      "The capability to produce electricity, hydrogen, chemicals, or various combinations while eliminating nearly all air pollutants and potentially greenhouse gas emissions makes coal gasification one of the most promising technologies for the energy plants of tomorrow." 10-05

  28. Global Warming and Financial Interests (Grist.org)
      "Five months after Bush's inauguration, a West Virginia Coal Association official told a meeting of the organization: 'You did everything you could to elect a Republican president. Now you are already seeing in his actions the payback ... for what we did.' "

      "That 'payback' came in the form of an about-face on a campaign promise Candidate Bush made in 1999 -- to repeat nationally what he had done as governor of Texas, imposing a carbon dioxide emissions cap on the state's coal-fired power plants. In a letter to four Republican senators, Bush said he was backing away from the cap because of the 'incomplete state of scientific knowledge of the causes of, and solutions to, global climate change and the lack of commercially available technologies for removing and storing carbon dioxide.' "

      "Particularly pleased by Bush's flip-flop was Irl Englehardt, chair of the Peabody Group, the country's biggest coal company. Englehardt had donated $250,000 to the Republican National Committee, and served as an adviser to the Bush-Cheney Energy Transition Team." 11-05

  29. -01-10-06 Ministerial Meeting (BBC News)
      "The first ministerial meeting of a controversial alliance promising economic growth with low carbon emissions has opened in Sydney."

      "The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate aims to develop and promote technologies such as "clean coal", nuclear and renewables." 01-06

  30. Technology Meets Drive-Thru (CNN News)
      "To help cut the waste from leftovers, Pittsburgh-based Hyperactive Technologies developed a computer system that tells managers how much food they need to prepare by counting vehicles in the line and factoring in demand for current promotions and popular staple items."

      "The system, called Hyperactive Bob, cuts preparation time and eliminates up to 60 percent of waste, said Joe Porfeli, the company's chief executive, who said two major national chains use the service. He declined to give their names." 01-06

  31. Biomass Resources (EERE.Energy.gov)
      "Biomass technologies use renewable biomass resources to produce an array of energy related products including electricity, liquid, solid, and gaseous fuels, heat, chemicals, and other materials. Bioenergy ranks second (to hydropower) in renewable U.S. primary energy production and accounts for three percent of the primary energy production in the United States." 01-06

  32. Geothermal (EERE.Energy.gov)
      "Geothermal energy technologies use the heat of the earth for direct-use applications, geothermal heat pumps, and electrical power production. Research in all areas of geothermal development is helping to lower costs and expand its use. In the United States, most geothermal resources are concentrated in the West, but geothermal heat pumps can be used nearly anywhere." 01-06

  33. Ford Developing a Hybrid With Flexible Fuel (Ford Motor Company)
      "At the Washington Auto Show, Ford unveiled the Ford Escape Hybrid E85, a research vehicle marrying two petroleum-saving technologies – hybrid electric power and flexible-fuel capability. Escape Hybrid E85 is the world’s first hybrid vehicle capable of operating on blends of fuel containing as much as 85 percent ethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from American-grown corn or sugar beets. And ethanol use releases no fossil-based CO 2, so its use as a fuel in place of gasoline reduces the release of greenhouse gases." 02-06

  34. SpaceX Launched, Then Lost (MSNBC News)
      "After four years of work, three launch delays and $100 million in dot-com cash, SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket rose from its Pacific launch pad on Friday, but was lost moments later."

      "Space enthusiasts around the world had looked forward to what SpaceX, also known as Space Exploration Technologies, billed as the world's first all-new orbital launch vehicle in more than a decade." 9-05

  35. DNA May Trace Hominids Back 5 Million Years (BBC News)
      "New technologies may soon allow scientists to identify some of the genes of humankind's oldest ancestors."

      "This raises the possibility of plotting the evolutionary tree of humanity from five million years ago to the present."

      "Professor Hendrik Poinar says DNA fragments should be recoverable from fossils that are a million years old, and proteins from even older times."

      Editor's Note: Fossils found since this article was written indicate that hominids reach back at least 6.5 to 7 million years. 6-04

  36. -Our Evolution - Homo Sapiens Sapiens (O'Neil) star
      "All people today are classified as Homo sapiens sapiens--i.e., the sapiens variety of the species Homo sapiens. They first began to appear 130,000 years ago or somewhat earlier in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals. It is now clear that they did not come after the Neandertals but were their contemporaries." Provides a timeline, description, and different theoretical models about the development of current humans, Homo sapiens sapiens.

      Editor's Note: Homo sapiens sapiens, current humans, are the only known survivors of the genus Homo or the species sapiens. 06-03

  37. Stewart v. Blackwell Decision on Ohio Voting Machines (USCourts.gov)
      The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit REVERSED the decision of United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio at Akron. "The [District] court stated that: 'When coupled with the previously referenced de minimis affects of the punch card ballots, these facts do not allow this Court to conclude that an 'actual' denial of the right to vote on account of race occurs.' "Finally, the court concluded that 'the operation of different voting systems by different counties within the same state does not amount to a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.' ”

      "Relying heavily on Justice Souter’s dissenting opinion in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 134 (2000) (Souter, J., dissenting), the district court concluded that states may freely use a variety of different voting technologies without running afoul of the Equal Protection Clause. Further, the court concluded that the defendants have a rational basis for continuing to utilize punch card technology in that it is cost effective and there are security concerns with electronic technology." 04-06

  38. Efficient Carbon Sequestration at Existing Coal Plants (American Electric Power)
      "American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) will install carbon capture on two coal-fired power plants, the first commercial use of technologies to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing plants."

      "In laboratory testing sponsored by Alstom, EPRI and others, the process has demonstrated the potential to capture more than 90 percent of CO2 at a cost that is far less expensive than other carbon capture technologies. It is applicable for use on new power plants as well as for the retrofit of existing coal-fired power plants."

      "The system chills the flue gas, recovering large quantities of water for recycle, and then utilizes a CO2 absorber in a similar way to absorbers used in systems that reduce sulfur dioxide emissions. The remaining low concentration of ammonia in the clean flue gas is captured by cold-water wash and returned to the absorber. The CO2 is compressed for enhanced oil recovery or storage."

      "The captured CO2 will be designated for geological storage in deep saline aquifers at the site." 03-07

  39. Desalination Devices Currently Available (Ecomagination.com)
      "GE's desalination platform uses membrane technology to transform seawater and brackish water into fresh water for drinking, irrigation and industrial applications. This particular ecomagination breakthrough couldn't come at a better time – water scarcity affects 1 in 5 people today, and that number will climb to 3 in 5 in 20 years. GE's reverse osmosis (RO) and electrodialysis reversal (EDR) technologies produce water reliably and affordably. They are also versatile – accommodating a range of sizes, across continents, for almost any salt or brackish water source." 05-07

  40. Groundwater Exploration (EarthWaterGlobal.com)
      "EarthWater Global locates, develops and manages previously overlooked, large-scale, sustainable groundwater resources. EarthWater's President, Robert Bisson, has developed and demonstrated a revolutionary concept of how fresh water is transmitted through tectonic fractures in bedrock and stored in 'Megawatersheds'. "

      "EarthWater Global draws on data generated from a variety of technologies, developed for and used by the oil and gas industry, to locate and develop these vast groundwater resources on a low-cost, sustainable basis." 06-07

  41. -06-22-07 Court Gives Email Privacy Protection (Time Magazine)
      "In a startling decision this week, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati ordered the feds to keep their mitts off e-mail stored with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) like Yahoo! unless they notify the sender first or show that he doesn't consider the e-mail private. The ruling was based on the conclusion that most people think e-mail, like letters or phone conversations, is private, and protected under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable government searches and seizures."

      "That seems a pretty fair conclusion, but the amazing thing is that no court has ever reached it before. In other words, we've been living under a legal regime that essentially assumes we don't much care if, say, Alberto Gonzales sees our e-mails after they leave our outbox. So for a federal appeals court to upend that regime is a big deal, as experts like Professor Orin Kerr at George Washington University Law School will tell you."

      " 'If this case sticks around,' says Kerr, 'it's the most important decision involving the Fourth Amendment in a long time for new technologies.' " 06-07

  42. Hillary Clinton: Energy Policy (HillaryClinton.com)
      "Hillary has championed policies that encourage development of alternative energy technologies and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. She has proposed an Apollo Project-like program dedicated to achieving energy independence." 07-07

  43. -09-08-07 Chip Implants May Be Dangerous (CBS News)
      "When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly. The FDA found 'reasonable assurance' the device was safe, and a sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies."

      "But neither the company nor the regulators publicly mentioned this: A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had 'induced' malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats." 09-07

  44. Near-Zero Emissions Coal-Fired Plant (FutureGenAlliance.com)
      "FutureGen is a US $1.5 billion public-private partnership to design, build, and operate a near-zero emissions coal-fueled power plant. The commercial-scale R&D facility will integrate advanced technologies to develop a first-of-its-kind clean power plant that will help fuel the world’s economy, sustain livelihoods, and meet demand for clean electricity."

      "Siting and building a power plant is a major undertaking that requires design, construction, and permitting. The FutureGen Alliance and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plan an aggressive developing schedule that includes announcing a final site selection in the latter half of 2007, beginning construction within two years, and initiating full-scale plant operations in 2012. Currently, the major activities include completing environmental impact assessments on the four candidate sites, selecting a final site and conducting engineering design work." 10-07

  45. Power Revolution (US News)
      "The high-rolling risk takers who brought you personal computing, the telecommunications revolution, the commercialization of the Internet, and, of course, Google now aim to do nothing less than save planet Earth—and make billions while doing it."

      "But Khosla, through his own Khosla Ventures and often working alongside the legendary VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he maintains an affiliation, is in the vanguard of entrepreneurs and financiers who believe their Silicon Valley success stories can be repeated in green energy. They are pouring money and ideas into a new generation of alternatives to fossil fuel—'technologies that scale,' in their words. That is, options that can ramp up to serve a large share of the nation's energy needs because they'll cost less than coal or oil. One estimate is that venture capital funds nearly tripled their investment on green energy last year, putting $2.4 billion to work." 10-07

  46. -Editorial: Vested Interests Are Hijacking Our Energy Future (Christian Science Monitor)
      "MMS fears the inevitable lawsuits. Opponents have filed at least 20 project-related lawsuits and other actions. Some of these exhibit an extremely impressive imagination. These suits have ultimately failed – but that's not the point. The point is to create a high-stakes game of chicken and see who blinks first. 'Endless litigation – nothing will get done!' threatened Rep. Bill Delahunt (D) of Massachusetts in a December 2004 public hearing."

      "The Cape Wind battle matters to the whole world. We must encourage the development of new technologies and begin to revamp the world's energy infrastructure."

      "We need a serious and responsible conversation about the future of energy in America. As we have it, we cannot allow the public discussion to be hijacked by those with hidden agendas. There's simply too much at stake." 10-07

  47. Safe Technology for Arsenic Removal (UNU.edu - Johnston and Heijnen)
      "This paper describes some safe water technologies for arsenic removal."

      "Coagulation is the most common arsenic removal technology. As many Bangladesh waters contain arsenite, oxidation with chlorine or permanganate is required first. Coagulation with ferric chloride works best at pH below 8." 10-07

  48. Arsenic Removal Methods (UNU.edu)
      "In the context of prevalence of high concentrations of arsenic in tubewell water, a wide range technologies has been tried for the removal of arsenic from drinking water. The most common technologies utilized the conventional processes of oxidation, co-precipitation and adsorption onto coagulated flocs, adsorption onto sorptive media, ion exchange and membrane techniques for arsenic removal. The conventional technologies have been scaled down to meet the requirements of households and communities and suit the rural environment. Some technologies utilized indigenous materials for arsenic removal. This paper presents a short review of the technologies used for arsenic removal in Bangladesh and India. 11-07

  49. Seed Project to Preserve Species (ARS.USDA.gov)
      "The National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP) conserves genetic resources of crops and animals important to US agriculture and landscapes. Preservation of genetic diversity in ex situ genebanks such as NCGRP is important for conservation of biological diversity and utilization of genetic resources for economic and environmental sustainability. Formerly called the National Seed Storage Laboratory (NSSL), our facility changed its name in 2001 to reflect an expanded mission beyond seed storage. In addition to being a seed bank, NCGRP is a repository for animal genetic resources in the form of semen and plant genetic resources in the form of graftable buds or in vitro plantlets. Genetic resources are preserved using state-of-the-art technology that often involves cryogenics. A research team with cryobiology expertise works to develop cryopreservation technologies." 12-07

  50. Powder from Tires (CNN News)
      "Cialone is founder of Lehigh Technologies, a Naples, Florida, company that pulverizes rubber from used tires and factory scrap into powder as fine as talc." 02-08

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