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...terms of ipos, banking, trading. So we have benefited enormously from the fact that we are now part of the Chinese nation. But even though we are No. 1, AAA, in terms of, say, infrastructure, rating agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's give us AA because we are part of this larger regional economy called China. That's unfair. I've argued with them that the China connection is a plus, not a minus...
...phased out.”But that’s exactly what the NCAA is trying to do to our beloved football division. Because when Appalachian State beat the University of Massachusetts last weekend to claim the school’s second straight Division I-AA title, it wasn’t really a repeat effort. In fact, according to those in charge in college sports’ highest governing body, it was really the Mountaineers’ first NCAA Division I Football Championship.What’s an NCAA Division I Football Championship, you ask? That?...
...league’s athletic directors would be just the starting point of an arduous process that would ultimately end up with the eight Ivy presidents—and as one might recall from past musings on the lack of Ivy League inclusion in the Division I-AA football playoffs, the Ivy presidents are not a group receptive to rapid change in athletics. A potential stumbling block might be that extra games would result in a loss of additional class time for the league’s student-athletes...
...able to watch a game between teams with 12 or 13 wins (we play exactly ten up here), after New Year’s (our football season is over before Thanksgiving, every year), among teams that had a chance to play for a championship (Division I-AA has a great playoff system that we will never taste...
Enfucell, based outside Helsinki, builds batteries out of paper. Its SoftBattery works much the same way as ordinary "button" batteries (like the one in your watch) and "finger" batteries (think AA). Ions travel from an anode, pass through a solution called an electrolyte to a cathode and emerge as an electrical charge. Instead of running ions through metal casings full of toxic and corrosive substances like lithium and alkaline, Enfucell uses a thin paper sheet as a conduit. It pastes one side with zinc and the other side with manganese dioxide. Ions flow through an electrolyte solution of water...