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...Harvard Allston Partnership Fund, which will award a total of $500,000 in grants to neighborhood nonprofit organizations over five years, began accepting its second round of applications this month...
...Crimson started out strong in the first set, keeping even with Arizona for the first several rounds of play. With the score at 12-10, Sun Devil Sarah Reaves delivered a kill that began a cascade of Arizona scoring. The Crimson could not match the pace, as the Sun Devils utilized 3-0 and 4-0 run to take a commanding lead. Harvard kept it close in the second set, with the score at 11-9 when a kill by Sun Devil Sofie Schlagintweit helped Arizona pull away to win the frame...
...California has a record of aggressive conservation standards that have paid off. Despite an increase in population and more appliances consuming power in homes and businesses, per capita energy consumption in California has remained flat for the past 30 years. The energy efficiency campaign began in 1975 with refrigerators; today, says Garfield, there are more, larger models and they use approximately one-quarter of the energy as before. California's per capita electricity consumption has remained constant at approximately 7,000 kilowatt-hours while the rest of the United States has increased 40 percent or roughly 12,000 kilowatt-hours...
...nuclear program as naïve - "a tired siren song," in the words of Bruce Klingner, a Senior Research Fellow at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former CIA analyst. Doves say the 1994 Agreed Framework is evidence that the `carrot' option can work. Hawks say the North began undermining and cheating on that agreement before the ink was dry. (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...
...Another former friend also told the Australian that she began to piece things together when she overheard the victim's children addressing her father - their supposed grandfather - as "daddy," asking him if they could take their bicycles for a ride. "I thought, 'Daddy?' It didn't sound right to me. That's not a normal sort of thing.' No, and neither is the fact that this is the third case of this kind of gross incest and child abuse to come to light this year...