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From Intel Intern to Inventor of the Year

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For two years, Kavalieros and team had dug deeply into the building of transistors. Chau hired Kavalieros as a summer intern in 1994 when he was pursuing his Ph.D. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kavalieros is the son of a supertanker captain. It was a new manufacturing technique called strained silicon.

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DOE awards $4M to carbon capture and storage projects selected as part of ACT

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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $4 million in federal funding for national laboratories to collaborate with international partners on seven projects out of the 12 that were selected as a part of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (ACT) Initiative.

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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Seagrass meadows, the researchers found, store 90% of their carbon in the soil, and continue to build on it for centuries. —co-author Karen McGlathery, a scientist at the University of Virginia and NSF’s Virginia Coast Reserve LTER site. The research also estimates that, although seagrass meadows occupy less than 0.2%

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

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Even the butter service — presented in a stacked ribbon reminiscent of a Frank Gehry building — puts on a show. The menu reads like roll call at the United Nations: soups from Indonesia, chickpea tagines, French omelets and a bucatini dish by way of Greece, pairing brown butter with feta and cinnamon. Virtue changed everything.

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