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...pilot plant in the east German town of Schwarze Pumpe that uses another, untested clean-coal technology: oxyfuel. The plant will burn coal with pure oxygen instead of air, mixed with CO2 to keep heat levels manageable. What's left is pure CO2. Some is recirculated to aid combustion; the rest is easily captured for sequestration. If the combustion technology works, Vattenfall will build a 250-MW demonstration plant that will transport the captured CO2 to an underground storage site. It hopes to start building full-scale carbon-free plants around 2015 to 2020. In Britain, Powerfuel's Budge expects...
...where Tehran can exercise influence. Western diplomatic estimates of how many are there and where exactly they are vary, but several hundred Revolutionary Guards are believed to operate in the Hizballah-controlled Beqaa Valley, providing operational training to the movement's guerilla forces. For its part, Iran insists its aid to Hizballah is limited to humanitarian and moral support...
...million for a neuroscience institute; former Harvard Corporation member Richard A. Smith, who had planned to give $100 million for a 500,000 square-foot science complex in Allston; and David Rockefeller ’36, who had planned to give $75 million for undergraduates in need of financial aid to study abroad...
...working to develop C-CAP, a course-cost assistance program for low-income students. Sponsored by the Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) campaign, the program would grant textbook stipends to students with family incomes under $60,000. Anene, who said he has spoken to Harvard administrators who oversee financial aid about the program, would like to see a stipend program in place by the fall...
...June 26]. You stated that "the role of women is still peculiar" in the college. I call it outrageous! As you noted, Eton may be hiring more women teachers and naming its first female housemaster, but why doesn't the school accept female students? You reported on the financial-aid campaign that is supposed to integrate less privileged groups into the élite. But what about the biggest group of underprivileged people in Europe: women? I'm appalled by such gender discrimination in our supposedly progressive Europe of the 21st century! Maxi Schmeisser Bamberg, Germany Your reporting on Eton stated...