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Last fall, the University entered into a voluntary—and legally binding??agreement with the state to keep the greenhouse gas emissions of its new science complex at 50 percent below the national standard while other future projects would be capped at 30 percent below the standard...
Before today’s announcement, Princeton had maintained a “binding?? early decision program, which meant that applicants accepted in the fall were contractually-obligated to enroll at the New Jersey school. Harvard, by contrast, had used a “non-binding?? early action system. Under that system, applicants accepted to Harvard could still opt out of enrolling here...
...Eckert questions the binding??s authenticity. “I think even this is somewhat doubtful as [the book] doesn’t greatly resemble others I’ve seen in the past,” he adds...
Notes from a now-missing typed memorandum that once accompanied the book revealed that the binding??s skin comes from “the back of the unclaimed body of a woman patient in a French mental hospital who died suddenly of apoplexy...
According to the former director of libraries at the University of Kentucky, Lawrence S. Thompson, the first reputed example of human-skin binding??anthropodermic bibliopegy—dates to a 13th century French Bible. Human-skin binding likely began in the late 16th or early 17th century, according to Thompson, who has written about the topic...