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Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Set to Turn Cow Pies into Electricity
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Written by Miranda Marquit   


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In developing countries there are serious challenges to providing cheap and environmentally-friendly sources of electricity and clean drinking water. But Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, wants to try to overcome them. Recently he unveiled two of his latest projects at the Lux Executive Summit: an electricity generator that runs on cow waste and a water filtration system. Green Tech reports on the reasoning behind Kamen's efforts:

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Reframe It: Reading Between the Lines
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Written by Robert Fishkin and Michelle Haimoff   
Sometimes socially conscious investing works.
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Innerspace: When Sci-Fi Becomes Just Plain Sci
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Written by Jeanne Roberts   
Innerspace: When Sci-Fi Becomes Just Plain Sci
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Remember the 1987 sci-fi movie Innerspace (with Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan), where test-pilot Quaid is miniaturized and travels inside Short’s body?

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The Digital Transition and a Looming Environmental Crisis
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Written by Jeanne Roberts   
As most people now realize, come February of 2009 many US televisions will no longer be able to deliver the majority of network programming because they are designed to accept an analog, rather than digital, signal.
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Comverse Technology - Takeover on the Horizon? "The Greatest Stock Story Never Told"
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Written by Thomas Chenoweth   
Comverse takeover on the Horizon
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In my early days as a stockbroker, I worked for a small investment banking firm that participated in underwriting small speculative growth companies that mainly traded as pink sheet stocks. Nine out of ten companies in this arena never make it, but I was fortunate enough to embrace one that turned out to be my greatest lesson in what can happen to a long-term stock buy.

 

I also learned what can happen if I don't stay with my beliefs and bail on a stock too early, resulting in years of kicking myself and muttering of what I should have, could have, would have done.

The company I am referring to is my first stock pick from 1989, Comverse Technology (CMVT -OTC).

 

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