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Opportunity is an issue too. The number of schools offering physical education has dropped over the years, and there is no national mandate requiring schools to build it into their curriculums. Even when P.E. is offered, only about half (48%) of all high school girls are enrolled in the class. The numbers start off promising - 70% of freshman girls enroll - but quickly tail off: only 32% stick around by senior year, according to a 2005 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We're just not teaching kids how to be physically active," says Nicole LaVoi...
Grochow said that Roofnet, which is now commercially available, is “the way to go” for metropolitan wireless, and that MIT is still committed to working with Cambridge to help the city build a wireless network...
...world’s gasification plants use Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) because a tested and energy-efficient technology has yet to be developed. Even when the technology does become available, the cost is prohibitive. Gasification plants with CCS would be up to 40 percent more expensive to build, while retrofitting plants would mean major technological modifications. Estimates place the cost of electricity production at 30 to 40 percent higher with CCS than without. In Massachusetts, moreover, there is yet another barrier: CCS requires storage of liquefied CO2 in natural geological reservoirs, which don’t exist...
Kagan’s appointment to the advisory board will lend “a level of stature” that is needed to build the credibility of such initiatives nationwide, Halbritter said...
...Perhaps partly as a result of the careful build-up, department heads have been guarded about offering their opinions of Smith’s project. Since the announcement, The Crimson issued repeated requests for comment to 17 active members of FAS who served as chairs in 2005. Only one responded with an on-the-record statement...