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CampusTap.com enables Harvard e-mail account holders to share ideas, communicate events, and increase campus-wide discussion through intricately linked blogs...
When Harvard.edu account holders complete the free registration process, they are given their own home page that features everything from a personalized daily planner to highlights of blogs that have recently mentioned their name. A “Blogcrastinate” button at the top of every page swiftly diverts the user to a completely random blog, and a “Campus Chatter” feature identifies the most common words and phrases showing up in posts. Just before the official launch, “campus chatter” was preoccupied with outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, Chuck...
Last spring, Summers made now-notorious comments suggesting that differences in intrinsic aptitude between men and women might account for the under-representation of women in positions of academic science. This incident catalyzed a series of Faculty meetings that culminated in an unprecedented vote of “lack of confidence.” More recently, Summers drew the Faculty’s ire for his dismissal of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and for lingering allegations of misconduct in his handling of a government lawsuit, implicating Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, that...
...consumption and start saving more, while the Chinese--who have been buying hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. securities, especially U.S. Treasury bonds--would save less and do more to boost their domestic demand. That would go a long way toward reducing the U.S.'s $800 billion current account deficit without harming world economic growth...
Just how big could nukes become? Jean-Jacques Gautrot, who heads Areva's international division, does a quick calculation. Taking into account the world's growing energy needs and the fact that many existing plants will be coming to the end of their lives, he reckons that at least 800 new reactors will be built over the next 25 to 35 years. If nukes were to double their share of the world's electricity generation, to 30% of the total, the number of new nukes would be somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500. That may be wishful thinking...