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...article showed people unafraid of a radical career change supported in part by American self-confidence as well as our sense of mobility. Seeing new jobs, even if temporary or minimum-wage work, as a challenge is an American answer to dreary job entrenchment and shows our ability to begin again. PATRICIA K. RYAN Ardmore...
...current crop of innovators is focusing on the long-elusive goal of making clean and sustainable power a mainstream commodity. For example, the fuel cell--which extracts electricity from the chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen--has been around for about 150 years, though its commercial deployment did not begin until the 1960s and then only as part of NASA spacecraft. Today this technology is coming down to Earth in places like Tokyo, where Japan's first hydrogen-fuel filling station opened in June; in nine European cities, from Stockholm to Porto, each operating three hydrogen-fuel-cell buses...
...Edwards—the self-described “hardcore of the hardcore”—canvassed in New Hampshire on Saturday, as part of a larger group of 24 Harvard College Democrats doing legwork for the Jan. 27 primary. The Edwards volunteers were eager to begin campaigning for their candidate, whom most polls estimate is trailing fellow U.S. presidential candidates Howard B. Dean, John F. Kerry and Wesley K. Clark in New Hampshire...
Mahan, who will begin his presidency in mid-January, said that he will dedicate himself to making sure that undergraduates have a voice in Allston planning...
...Salan Mohammed Hassan - a gangly, gentle, 23-year-old Somali man crammed into the open 12-m boat with scores of other Africans, all trying to smuggle themselves into Europe - isn't worried. It has taken him eight months to travel a 4,500-km route from Mogadishu and begin this perilous October crossing, and along the way he has gone without food and water plenty of times. His optimism seems rewarded four hours later, when the young Egyptian piloting the green-and-white fishing boat spots the lights of Malta, steers left, and announces that the Italian coast...