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Bill Gates and friends have developed a simple system to convert human feces into electricity, fresh water and pathogen-free ash – and no stink! In a quest to find a way to end the tragic death of more than 700,000 children annually from drinking bad water, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has sponsored a variety of waste treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Janicki Bioenergy develops and manufactures a variety of sizes of this system. It uses the combustible biomass (roughly 20% of the feces) to heat mass quantities to ~2000 degrees Fahrenheit. The super-heated steam from...

Crap. Some kind of psychobabble how-to. Crap. Romance novel, romance novel, something in a plastic binder—and it’s sticky!, ah geez—crap, crap, crap. Wait…what’s that one. With the psychedelic cover. Do I read that right? These two guys babbling in German, holding a Huckleberry Finn, are in my way again. I duck behind their backpacks and make a grab. Yes! The Omni Interviews. What a great score. It’s a collection of the best interviews the magazine did, up until about 1984. And I found it at a PTA sale in a milk crate on the West side of Manhattan (foreign country...

Police are searching for a 50-year-old Lewisville father whose 17- and 18-year-old daughters were found shot to death in an abandoned car Tuesday evening in Irving, police said. Police suspect Yaser Abdel Said Saidyaser may have shot Sarah Yaser Said, 17 and Amina Yaser Said, 18 and let them for dead inside a car. A 911 cell phone call, believed to have been made by one of the teens at about 7:30 p.m., alerted police to the shooting, but the caller was unable to tell police where she was and officers were dispatched to the area of O'Connor Road and...

Chalk another one up for the Conservative war room. The gang that brought you the "Paul Martin Supports Child Porn" news release in the 2004 campaign made another embarrassing error on the second day of the election campaign. Early on Wednesday, Press Gallery reporters were informed about a press conference with Conservative MP Jason Kenney shortly after noon regarding an offensive item on the Liberal party Web site. The press conference was to be held at the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill as the temperature hovered around zero. About five minutes later, reporters were told the press conference would be...