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...says the nail metaphor helped his team diverge from standard car chassis design and find a way to create a light yet crash-resistant frame. Weighing a mere 450 kg, the Loremo prototype claims to get 100 km out of a meager 1.5 L of fuel - about half the amount used by the most efficient cars available today. That, most people would agree, is an idea whose time has come. Experts may quibble over just how much oil is left buried in the earth. But no one disputes that record pump prices, geopolitics and global warming are taking the pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving On The Light Side | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

Given the amount of time and effort I have devoted to rowing during my Harvard career, my story unsurprisingly has Newell boathouse as stage. Yet, the tale transpires in circumstances far different from my September-through-June routine. Summer rowing, like all things associated with summer, is a bit less intense, a bit more jovial, and a great deal more fun than its spring, fall, or winter distillations. The boathouse is warmer, the sun brighter, and the river livelier than during the academic year. And they all make the sport much more pleasant...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Learning in the Launch | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

...people who are involved in the admissions process put a significant amount of faith in the process as a trade or an art, rather than a science, because each institution has its own admissions standards,” admissions expert Hawkins says. He notes that while institutions tend to be good at applying their own standards, officers at many institutions bombarded with applications “are not assessing academic information as much as they’re performing triage. They look at the application pool and say this segment seems to clearly not meet it, [while] this meets...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stairway to Harvard | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

...These sheep are used to living life on a hill, and until they were brought in for the studies, they probably saw people only six times a year. Being near people could still be a frightening experience for them, so the sensible thing to do was to limit the amount of stress the surrogate was under. I only wanted the people who had to be there to be there, and I applied the same rule to myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Talk With Dolly's Creator | 7/3/2006 | See Source »

...liters Amount of alcohol consumed by the average European adult per year, the most worldwide and 2.5 times the global average 27% Proportion of deaths among E.U. males aged 15 to 29 that are alcohol related...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

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