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...expertise at every stage of the supply chain: growing sugar cane efficiently, refining it, converting it to ethanol and manufacturing the cars. Brazil is building ethanol plants and is in a great position to capitalize on its vast experience by selling its knowledge to other countries that decide to adopt this new technology or buy its cars...
...remain a planet and make 2003 UB313 one as well, but keep the rest of the riffraff out. "Pluto," says Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and a member of the IAU working group, "has historically been considered a planet, and so any definition we adopt really must include it." Another proposal would drop the limit to 1,000 km, letting Quaoar and Sedna into the club as well...
...Harvard’s money could save many more lives in Malawi than it will in Mississippi. One might argue that, as Americans, we have a responsibility to our compatriots that trumps our obligation to the Third World. (Try telling that to the international students on campus.) If you adopt that nationalistic attitude in making your own charitable choices, well, that’s your decision. It doesn’t seem to be University President Lawrence H. Summers’ stance, however. In March 2004 he told alumni in Santiago, Chile that Harvard must “become...
...government introduced, including the Emergency Acts, which gave the state new powers to snoop into the lives of ordinary Germans. And what happened? Fischer and his friends took to the streets. It would be an irony indeed if, just as the '68ers leave the stage, Germany were to adopt the very brand of opposition-free politics that first brought them into vogue...
...committee decided not to adopt such a policy because it would place a significant “burden” on the faculty, according to Edwards...