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...purportedly 180,000 individual bills—with which to “make it rain.” The act of “making it rain” involves bringing large quantities of money to a locale (read: strip club), and then throwing said money in the air, thereby making it “rain” cash upon the revelers (read: strippers). Admittedly, the term is open to interpretation. When students were asked whether they were aware of the definition of making it rain, responses varied. “When I think of that term...
...fact, the show (produced by David S. Jewett ’08, Roy A. Kimmey III ’09, and Mary Eleanor Stebbins ’08) cultivates an anachronistic air throughout all its aspects, starting with the solemn playing of the British national anthem at the show’s beginning. Getting into this late-19th-century mindset is perhaps advisable if one wants to comfortably enjoy a musical whose Japanese characters have names such as Nanki...
...Some 50 U.S. navy vessels pass through Hong Kong in a normal year and the only time entry has been refused before was during crises such as the bombing by American planes of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the mid-air collision of a Chinese fighter and a U.S. surveillance plane in 2001. So in diplomatic terms, the Kitty Hawk refusal was a pretty sharp rebuke. It was also a much more calculated move than it at first appeared: The Pentagon revealed in the days after the incident that two other ships and a U.S. Air Force...
...deal unless the developing countries are included in a more substantive way - a position unlikely to change even when the occupant of the White House does. Beijing and New Delhi both argue that the vast majority of historical carbon emissions came from the developed nations (CO2 stays in the air for up to 200 years), so action should come from the rich first - a contention arguably supported by the UNFCCC itself, which calls for "common but differentiated responsibilities" between nations on climate change. But the reality is that the bulk of future CO2 emissions will come from rapidly growing developing...
...began releasing air pollutant data for certain industries in 1987 through the Toxics Release Inventory Program. The Agency expanded the program over the course of the 1990s and made the data available through spreadsheets and maps on the EPA Web site...