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...eight-hour charge and designed to last 100,000 hours, the Mightylight is safer and more cost effective than kerosene lamps, which are expensive to maintain and dangerous to use. (Not only do they start a lot of accidental fires but they are also a primary source of indoor air pollution, a major killer in developing countries...
...many peer institutions, the Board does not have any student representatives.This is problematic because students can often provide a valuable new perspective, because they better understand the strains and stresses acting upon their peers than faculty or administrators. Being judged by one’s peers also adds an air of legitimacy—we need only look to the American judicial system for an example, which has this notion as its cornerstone. Consequently, we believe that students should serve as full voting members of the administrative board. Allowing students to vote may not change the outcome of any instance...
...Yale, Dartmouth, Boston College and Harvard—to battle for just three nationals spots.“It was very touch and go as to who was going to qualify,” senior skipper Matt Knowles said. “It was up in the air going into the last round as to who would get the qualifying spots.”When it was all said and done, Dartmouth took top honors on the strength of an 11-2 final record, while Yale finished in second-place with a 9-4 mark. The Crimson...
...government. In Iraq, the process couldn't have been more different. We never had a conference comparable to the Afghan Loya Jirga that produced a leader, Hamid Karzai, around whom the country could coalesce. We had won the war; we had the guns, the tanks, the soldiers, and the air power. We were in charge, and by God, we knew what was best. Alas, what too many people in the U.S. government were convinced would be best was an Iraqi government headed up by Ahmed Chalabi...
...Air Force Lieutenant General Trey Obering, chief of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, recently told reporters over breakfast that the Pentagon's mid-course interceptors ordain where in Europe the defense sites should be located. "We have to be far enough back to be able to engage these threats in their mid-course phase, and we also have to be far enough back that we can launch the interceptor, get it through its own boosting phase, to be able to kill the inbound missile," he explained...