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A smashed boom in 50 knots of wind slowed the progress of the Irish entry Green Dragon on the second leg of the Volvo round the world race yesterday.
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Green Dragon skipper Ian Walker has reported that they had broken their boom just four days after the start of the Vendee Globe's second leg.
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British skipper Ian Walker leads his crew into pole for first time in race.
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Ian Walker and his crew spent 12 hours in hiding under the new StealthPlay initiative of this year's Volvo World Race.
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Dark rain clouds snuff out breezes as Volvo Ocean Race fleet picks its way through Doldrums.
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Ian Walker's crew were holding their own though fickle conditions in the Doldrums.
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Bouwe Bekking's Volvo Ocean Race curse struck again when his Volvo Open 70 Telefonica Blue suffered damage to the rudder on first night.
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The 'Green Dragon' is funded by a business group put together by Galway men John Killeen, Eamon Conneely and Enda O Coineen.
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By time conditions improve at Volvo Ocean Race Green Dragon may well have surrendered 22mile advantage.
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Fourth on the water but third highest points scorer, Ireland's Green Dragon, skippered by British double Olympic medallist Ian Walker and partnered by China, took over the third-placed spot overall after finishing the opening leg of the Volvo round the world race yesterday. There was a price.
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The clean-tech industry is suffering from the downturn like everyone else, but eventually, the economic crisis may spur its success
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Green Dragon's boom snaps in half as the crew attempts to erect a jury rig in the middle of a 50knot squall in the Southern Ocean.
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A sharp decline in investment in the construction sector and weaker household spending caused a contraction in the Spanish economy during the third quarter. Data released on Wednesday confirmed the preliminary estimates of a 0.2% contraction in the third quarter gross domestic product, the first since 1993. In the second quarter, the economy had expanded 0.1%. A breakdown of the data showed that household spending fell 1% in the third quarter, after rising 0.1% in the second quarter. On the othe
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Enrolment in trade schools in Newfoundland and Labrador is booming, all because of the economic downturn in the oil fields of Alberta, according to some instructors.
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It's always struck me as rather perverse that it's so very easy to get your hands on a stolen bike in London. Just about everyone knows that if you take a trip down to the end of Brick Lane in Shoreditch, east London, on a Sunday morning, you'll find dozens of kids peddling (not pedalling) expensive and often shiny new bicycles for knock-down prices. Yet even though this is common knowledge, the police never seem to do anything about it.
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Rajiv Shah is helping the Gates Foundation donate hundreds of millions of dollars to improve agriculture on the continent. But is technological change enough?
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ONLEY, Va. -- Maybe it's the homemade windmills spinning on the balcony. Or the golf-cart batteries that power the kitchen. Or maybe it's the purple shag carpeting, the pink shutters, the "Dick Van Dyke Show" furniture, the leopard-print paint on the dining room floor or the gold Rolls Royce in the gravel driveway.
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Sir Philip Green, owner of BHS and Topshop, is in talks with Icelandic government officials about investing up to £2bn in Baugur, the retailing group which includes House of Fraser, Karen Millen and Hamleys
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Businesses can reduce the cost of car provision for employees by going green, it has been claimed.
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The 10th National Women's Congress of China will be held from Oct. 28 to 31 in Beijing. The congress will comprehensively review and sum up the development of China's cause of women in the past five years, and set forth
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I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations and other reference materials that I use in my writing. For which I was rightly scolded. But the person I was interviewing made the point that many sites across the Web actually pretty much encourage or dare you to print off a physical version of what you're reading. People even offer widgets to help you make things more "printer-friendly." Then, of course, you wind up printing five more pages than...
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Significant progress has been made over frozen UK cash in failed Icelandic banks, say Treasury and Icelandic officials.
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Ghana secure their place in the next round of World Cup qualifying on goal difference.
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Damien Cassidy guides his club side Clonoe into the semi-finals of the Tyrone Football Championship.
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Lewes secure a narrow victory over Forest Green in the Blue Square Premier
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There are two responses to the financial crisis that are wrong. One is to say that we can forget all that goody-goody guff about the environment now that people are worrying about how to pay next week's bills. The other is to say that our culture of consumption has been exposed as unsustainable and that we must abandon capitalism for a life that is closer to nature. Today we outline a middle way.
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Britain's most successful transport campaigner has come top of the first comprehensive list of the country's most effective greens, compiled by The Independent on Sunday.
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Green is the hottest buzzword in the design world right now. Designers have inadvertently helped to generate the current environmental crisis because, by creating desirable products, they have helped fuel the global consumer economy and its attendant consumption of resources and pollution. Today, the profession is trying to make amends and, in particular, a new generation of young designers is exploring ways to reduce the negative impact of the goods they create. Yet there is a realisation that the problems are enormous and complex, while many solutions on offer are simplistic: the idea that we can save the planet while continuing with current levels of consumption is not viable. So, many of the most interesting "green" designs today – showcased on these pages – instead draw attention to environmental and social problems rather than proposing solutions. n
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