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...bottom line: the global oil supply has probably peaked. While the world expects to consume 120 million bbl. a day two decades from now, actual supply may be half that rate. This conclusion aptly portrays the potential magnitude of the energy ditch we are now in. It is impossible to calculate the odds of this supply-demand imbalance happening, but prudent planning argues that the world should assume the bleaker scenario. Then it follows that a global plan to use oil more rationally must be urgently developed and implemented...
...participation in TFA, prestigious firms like JP Morgan and McKinsey and Company now allow graduates to defer job offers for two years in order to teach with TFA. But few follow through with their business aspirations. “It’s a very small portion of our actual alumni who are in business, around four percent,” says Joshua Z. Biber, TFA’s Boston director for new site development. Biber reports that before joining TFA, ten percent of corps members considered teaching after college. But two-thirds of corps members continue teaching following their...
...them to contribute right away.”With Unger suffering a preseason injury a month ago that will sideline him for at least the next two weeks, the underclassmen may indeed have their opportunity to showcase their talents. Intense practices are one thing, but nothing can substitute actual game-time experience, especially when that experience will present completely new challenges for the incoming freshmen.“It’s obviously going to be up to Coach Amaker [to decide] how many guys are going to get to play and how deep he wants...
Every November, Harvard and Yale attempt to set up the impending Game as an epic battle of Good vs. Evil, Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader, or Plucky Underdogs vs. Bulldogs. But every year the actual struggle seems more like Hatfield vs. McCoy, Montague vs. Capulet, or Luke vs. That Masked Vader-Like Figure in Empire Strikes Back That Actually Turns Out to Be Luke’s Psyche (Or Something). Are we just fighting ourselves? Or is this indeed an epic smackdown between the representatives of two vitally different ideals...
...conclude that assessing soldiers right after they had come home significantly underestimated the mental health toll of the war. For example, only 3.5% of active-duty soldiers and 4.2% of reservists were initially worried about fighting with spouses, family members and close friends. Asked several months later about actual conflicts, rates rose to 14% and 21.1%, respectively. Depression rates doubled for active duty and tripled for reserve soldiers over time...