In 2000, Ashley Mulroy, United States, won the Stockholm Junior Water Prize for a contemporary project that investigated how inefficient waste water treatment processes can lead not only to antibiotic contamination in American waterways, but also to progressive resistance among harmful bacteria to those same antibiotics that once controlled them.
Two music videos for Get What You Want were released in the UK and Australia. In the Australian music video it features all band members in a cartoon-like setting, singing and dancing as hands and skeletons chase each other.
RTA (NSW Australia) ISA trial results showed the benefits of ISA are improved speed zone compliance with reduction in the level and duration of speeding. A Cost Benefit Analysis of ISA (in Australia) Published in April 2010 by the Centre for Automotive Safety Research suggested advisory ISA would reduce injury crashes by 7.7% and save $1,226 million per year.
Leonsis has sought to roll-back changes to the Wizards and Capitals franchises that coincided with the opening of the Verizon Center in 1997. Additionally, he had taken under consideration restoring the Bullets name to the franchise, though critics said that this would send the wrong message about gun violence in Washington.
He continued to write prolifically in his retirement and continued to spend significant amounts of time consulting with students and other scholars. He was known for his dry sense of humour and usually responded to student questioning by posing counterquestions.
Out of the six 735 feeder lines in Montreal, five of them form a loop called the ring of power around the city. When the ring failed on January 7, 1998, roughly 60% of Greater Montreal’s power supply was offline.
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service provides a connection to the Internet through the telephone network. Unlike dial-up, DSL can operate using a single phone line without preventing normal use of the telephone line for voice phone calls.