But he had no idea what to do with his new-found power.

ECONOMIST: George Bush is a fool for keeping Donald Rumsfeld in his job

Mr Peters, steeped in that ethic but open to things new, found power tools useful in his own workshops in Surrey and in Devon.

ECONOMIST: Alan Peters

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, which pounded the Northeast in late October, many New Yorkers found themselves without power and without mobile service.

CNN: Is the pay phone making a comeback?

Flaunting its new found wealth and undoubted military power, Spain was feared in Europe and beyond.

BBC: Eurozone crisis: Catalonia's place in Spain

When Scottish Power found a new chief executive officer and "fresh perspective" in the person of Philip Bowman early this year, there was widespread speculation of a deal with Germany's E.

FORBES: Spanish-Scottish Match In The Air

Early in this decade Intel found a groove when paired a new breed of power sipping mobile processors with wireless connectivity to lead the shift from boxy, deskbound PCs to thin, light notebook computers.

FORBES: McAfee And The Software Side Of Intel

Prices rose after Libyan gas was cut off as a result of the country's uprising and a lot of Qatari LNG has found a new destination in Japan, deprived of much of its nuclear power since the disaster at its Fukushima plant.

ECONOMIST: Shale gas should make the world a cleaner, safer place

To the delight of her new husband, Hyde-Lees felt her hand seized by a strange power, and found herself scribbling down ghostly transmissions from the other world.

BBC: Where Yeats spoke with ghosts

The future of clean tech is already looking bright, as the world's solar power capacity just hit a record 101 gigawatts, and researchers found a new way to charge batteries by harvesting ambient electromagnetic waves from thin air.

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