function makeArray(len) {   for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null;this.length = len;}qwip = new makeArray(62);qwip[0]='A solar power milestone was reached on Tuesday when First Solar Inc brought its manufacturing costs for solar panels down to $1 per watt.';qwip[1]='The work has been hailed as a major step forward by scientists and welcomed by pro-life organisations, who called on researchers to halt other experiments which use stem cells collected from embryos made at IVF clinics. ';qwip[2]='"People came down on me like a ton of bricks," said Mr. Miloscia, who proposed an 18.5 percent sales tax on items like sex toys and adult magazines. "I didn\'t quite understand. Apparently porn is right up there with Mom and apple pie." ';qwip[3]='Criminal justice reformers find hope in Obama\'s record in the Illinois state Senate, where he sponsored more than 100 crime-related bills that were mostly (though not exclusively) progressive. ';qwip[4]='Some 30 other people with serious illnesses followed Randall into the IND program, which was closed to new patients in 1991. Four surviving patients receive federal cannabis to this day. ';qwip[5]='Industrial hemp doesn\'t contain enough THC to get anyone high, but that hasn\'t stopped the federal Drug Enforcement Administration from sending out helicopters to scour the land for hemp plants growing wild in ditches. ';qwip[6]='The thing about anti-ageing cream - a thing so blatantly obvious that it seems a miracle the ASA hasn\'t coughed quietly and pointed it out more often - is that it doesn\'t sodding well exist. There is no such thing. Nowhere in the universe.';qwip[7]='The leg bones of the Botai horses are more slender than those of wild horses, indicating breeding for different qualities. ';qwip[8]='Ultimately, though, the goal is to make displays that are not only flexible, but that also respond to touch. The first flexible electronic-paper product, the Readius, is due to launch later this year.';qwip[9]='The solitary Kurdish man, on that summer\'s day in 1994, had made the greatest archaeological discovery in 50 years. Others would say he\'d made the greatest archaeological discovery ever';qwip[10]='Now scientists have claimed that the culprit, Santino, who collects arsenals of weapons ready to throw at visitors, is living proof that animals are able to plan for the future, a skill previously thought to be restricted to humans. ';qwip[11]='In addition to the jailing of the youths, the judges also admitted to helping "facilitate" the construction of private jails.';qwip[12]='Tesler said when he joined the narcotics unit, he was told to "sit, watch and learn" from superiors who cut corners to meet performance quotas for arrests and warrants. "I was a new part and plugged into a broken system," Tesler said. ';qwip[13]='A number of U.S. institutions with licenses to hold nuclear material reported to the Energy Department in 2004 that the amount of material they held was less than agency records indicated. But rather than investigating the discrepancies, Energy officials wrote off significant quantities of nuclear material from the department\'s inventory records. ';qwip[14]='If it can\'t reduce expenses dramatically within the next few weeks, the Hearst Corp. said it will close or sell the Chronicle, northern California\'s largest newspaper with a paid weekday circulation of 339,430. ';qwip[15]='Obama\'s toughest political problem may not be coping with the increasingly marginalized G.O.P. but with an America-in-denial that must hear warning signs repeatedly, for months and sometimes years, before believing the wolf is actually at the door.';qwip[16]='Many Americans are profoundly ignorant of history, even regarding distant countries where the United States finds itself at war. One need not know much about Afghanistan\'s rich and ancient history, however, to learn some important lessons regarding the tragic failures of U.S. policy toward that country during the past three decades. ';qwip[17]='If we don\'t deal with climate change decisively, "what we\'re talking about then is extended world war," the eminent economist said. ';qwip[18]='The federal lawsuit filed in Washington on Tuesday -- the 100th anniversary of Geronimo\'s death -- also names the university and the federal government. ';qwip[19]='The nearly $790 billion economic stimulus legislation contains tens of billions of dollars in loans, grants, and tax incentives for advanced battery research and manufacturing, as well as incentives for plug-in hybrids and improvements to the electrical grid, which could help create a market for these batteries. ';qwip[20]='What is happening along the Jinsha, the Yangtze, and dozens of other Chinese rivers is emblematic of a major resurgence of dam building worldwide -- a trend that is likely to intensify as growing concerns about global warming make hydropower look more appealing.';qwip[21]='"I think it definitely signals that Obama is moving in a new direction, that it means what he said on the campaign trail that marijuana should be treated as a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue," he said.';qwip[22]='He has been working on the cultivation of hemp since 2006 after visiting Germany, a nation considered to be advanced in processing hemp for industrial use, in 2003. He learned that Germans widely used the plant as an eco-friendly material and interior finishing material for deluxe automobiles.';qwip[23]='The collapse of Iran\'s birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. Demographers have sought in vain to explain Iran\'s population implosion through family planning policies, or through social factors such as the rise of female literacy.  ';qwip[24]='The program\'s goal is the creation of moths or other insects that have electronic controls implanted inside them, allowing them to be controlled by a remote operator. ';qwip[25]='In these reports, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the FDA declared that "if the drug is not listed in the approved drugs list... they [Chilean companies] are not allowed to use the drug to treat salmon destined to be distributed in the U.S., not even if they meet withdrawal periods and no tissue residue can be detected." ';qwip[26]='The gamma rays from nearby supernova ought to have a significant impact on our atmosphere, in particular by producing an excess of nitrogen oxide. This ought to have left its mark in the Earth\'s ice history, so the team went looking for it in Antarctica. ';qwip[27]='A 19th-century Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in Hawaii, and died of the disease, will be declared a saint this year at a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. ';qwip[28]='On the other side of the crisis, America\'s economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong? And which will never come back at all? ';qwip[29]='Obviously people should be concerned about the $700 billion Congress voted for this past fall to deal with the credit crisis. But even if none of that money were to be paid back--and most of it will be--it would involve a smaller drain on taxpayer dollars than the Iraq War will have cost us by the time it is concluded, and it is roughly equivalent to the $651 billion we will spend on all defense in this fiscal year. ';qwip[30]='"So everybody in retrospect now knows that that boom was developing under the markets for quite a period of time, but nobody knew it," Mr. Greenspan told CNBC\'s David Faber.';qwip[31]='The proposal is moving through the state Senate and so far has generated little opposition.';qwip[32]='By 2003, Halliburton/KBR had a seat at the table when Pentagon officials planned the invasion of Iraq. When Congress approved the invasion in October 2002, the company\'s managers were already hard at work building military bases. Chatterjee recounts how Halliburton/ KBR\'s proposal to fix the Iraqi oil fields damaged by Saddam Hussein was never put up for bid.';qwip[33]='Fresh data has shown that greenhouse gas emissions have grown by an average of 3.5 percent a year from 2000 to 2007';qwip[34]='Part of the problem I\'ve encountered reporting on this issue is that police departments tend to to be stingy with this sort of information. Even when it\'s available, it\'s often collected in ways that aren\'t usable.';qwip[35]='Kerlikowske has been chosen to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a Cabinet-level position otherwise known as the drug czar. The office, established in 1988, directs drug-control policy in the U.S. ';qwip[36]='A team of students at MIT have invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smooths the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. ';qwip[37]='Though they stumbled upon a great candidate early on, many US chemists had given up on it by the end of the 1990s. The failed wonder material: lignin, the natural compound that lends strength to trees. A waste product from paper production, much of the lignin supply is simply burned as fuel.';qwip[38]='The collision involved an Iridium commercial satellite, which was launched in 1997, and a Russian satellite launched in 1993 and believed to be nonfunctioning. The Russian satellite was out of control, Matney said. ';qwip[39]='Automated electric vehicles, or pods, each designed to carry from four to six people, wait at stations throughout a city or development, like taxis waiting at taxi stands. A person or group gets in a pod and selects a destination and the vehicle drives there directly. ';qwip[40]='Each white, round fossil turd, or coprolite, is roughly 0.8 inch (2 centimeters) across. They were found embedded in sediments 195,000 to 257,000 years old. ';qwip[41]='It is enchanting, spectacular and - at 3.5m in diameter - it will soon become the biggest telescope mirror in space, surpassing that of Hubble. ';qwip[42]='Opposition to raising taxes on the rich historically is nothing new. But traditionally it has come from the rich. It is a new and to me profoundly disturbing phenomenon for the principle to be embraced by the general public. ';qwip[43]='Today Tice said that the spy agency also combined information from phone wiretaps with data that was mined from credit card and other financial records. He said information of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens is now in digital databases warehoused at the NSA. ';qwip[44]='None of the Bush Administration officials responsible has faced the slightest inconvenience as the result of his actions.';qwip[45]='In 1955, more than a third of working Americans belonged to one. Unions gave them the bargaining leverage they needed to get the paychecks that kept the economy going. So many Americans were unionized that wage agreements spilled over to nonunionized workplaces as well.';qwip[46]='A Princeton University professor demonstrated in court today how New Jersey\'s most widely used voting machines can be opened with a screwdriver and their computer chips swapped by hand. ';qwip[47]='"In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital," Costa was quoted as saying by Profil. "In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system\'s main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."';qwip[48]='Author James Bamford looked into the performance of the NSA in his 2008 book, The Shadow Factory, and found that it had been closely monitoring the 9/11 hijackers as they moved freely around the United States and communicated with Osama bin Laden\'s operations center in Yemen. ';qwip[49]='Even before an expected "Obama bounce" from a new President who has vowed to boost clean energy, U.S. wind power capacity surged 50 percent last year to 25 gigwatts (GW) -- enough to power more than five million homes. ';qwip[50]='The scientists concluded global temperatures could remain high for 1,000 years, even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted. ';qwip[51]=' The top-down culture of public planning stands to benefit by employing methods he\'s lifting from the world of open-source software: crowdsourced development, freely-accessible data libraries, and web forums, as well as actual open-source software with which city planners can map transportation designs to people\'s needs.';qwip[52]='There are now 23 clubs in the city, officials said, as compared to more than 40 when the process began in 2005; five applications have been rejected and many others clubs apparently closed without bothering to apply for a permit. ';qwip[53]='Justice Marvyn Koenigsberg gave the federal government a year to fix regulations so that compassion clubs or groups of users can get together and have a common grow operation. ';qwip[54]='Britain\'s largest agriculture co-op announced it would ban eight pesticides thought to be causing colony collapse disorder.';qwip[55]='A new study is investigating whether a tea tree oil body wash can prevent the drug-resistant super bug MRSA in critically ill hospitalized adults. ';qwip[56]='The new mechanical design strategy is based on semiconductor nanomaterials that can offer high stretchability (e.g., 140%) and large twistability such as corkscrew twists with tight pitch';qwip[57]='Roberto Casadio at the Universita di Bologna in Italy and a few pals reassured the world that this was not possible because the black holes would decay before they got the chance to do any damage.  Now they\'re not so sure.';qwip[58]='After lengthy negotiations, the plaintiffs and Google agreed on a settlement, which will have a profound effect on the way books reach readers for the foreseeable future. What will that future be? ';qwip[59]='He was the first man to mix original melody with rock\'n\'roll. ';qwip[60]='What we need to talk about, what someone needs to talk about, particularly now, is our ever-deepening ignorance (of politics, of foreign languages, of history, of science, of current affairs, of pretty much everything) and not just our ignorance but our complacency in the face of it, our growing fondness for it.';qwip[61]='Bush presidency, 8 years in 8 minutes ';
