At 11 years old, he's highly anemic and unable to flush his own blood of nitrogen, urea, and other respiration by-products. Now, sitting over Binky's draped body, Gregory and fellow surgeon Lynda Bernsteen peer into the patient's abdominal cavity through a giant microscope built for two. He cuts through the vessels connecting the cat's kidney to its circulatory system and drops the walnut-sized organ in a dish of ice. That's the amount of time the vets have to connect Wink's kidney inside...

The system injects liquid urea into the vehicle's exhaust stream, where it breaks down nitrogen oxide into harmless nitrogen and water without diminishing engine performance or fuel efficiency. The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel-powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off-road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog-causing emissions by as much as 90 percent. For the power technology, he licensed a prototype and focused on developing...

Each team had its own unique style, using various items from straws to fertilizer pumps for moisture and even utensils, such as spoons and whisks. The thirteen teams worked for six hours on the elaborate sand sculptures, while staying upbeat with some energetic music from the DJ. With the sun beating down and sweat pouring from peoples foreheads, water was not just used on the sand. During the fun in the sun, those observing the event could take a break from the heat and go inside and...

These events have been met with innovation in the provision of Islamic financial products, offering ingredients, for the first time, for a larger scale industry. Washingtons China bashers appear to be drawing on the same game plan of forced currency revaluation that wreaked havoc on the Japanese economy in the 1990s. Finally, it compels US monetary authorities to sustain easy monetary policy, in order to offset the leakage from domestic demand caused by the huge current account deficits....

The Environmental Protection Agency was successful, in past decades, in reducing significant sulfur emissions from coal power plants, but there was more work to do. The Diesel Technology Forum is a non-profit educational group that represents diesel engine and equipment manufacturers, fuel refiners and companies that make emission control equipment. A natural phenomenon Crude oil contains sulfur as part of the process of oil forming underground. Since 1993, highway vehicles have used low...