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...person's verdant grassland might be another's development site; where you see a mountain range, someone else might see a coal vein. Sorting out such matters can become impossible - especially when the debates take place across borders, as preservationists in one country plead with another not to burn a grassland or dam a river or tear down a thousand-year-old temple...
...corn-ethanol critics have doubts about the fuel as a short- and long-term energy solution. As U.S. vehicles burn through 9 million bbl. of gasoline a day, cornfield Cassandras fear that the home-brewed replacement may be only a pricey stepping-stone to a new generation of more efficient, lower-cost power sources like other biofuels, solar cells, wind and ethanol made from farm waste or other sources. Brazil, for instance, brews sugarcane-based ethanol, which is more efficient than corn-based...
...revive the tradition. “Someone told me, ‘Gee, they haven’t been doing that around here.’ ” Bok said. “But by that time I’d written it. I couldn’t burn it or throw it away, so I submitted it.” He added that he had “no stake” in deciding whether President-elect Drew G. Faust would continue to write and file an annual report. In his report, which was addressed to the alumni...
...continue to address the issue of college admissions reform. As the first of our peer institutions to adopt the Common Application, we have tried to make the application process itself less cumbersome. And in a paper first written in 2000 and recently revised, “Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation” (which can be found at http://www. admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/applying/time_off/index.html), we have expressed our concern about the increasing danger of “burnout” for many students. We hope the end of early admission will be of some help in this regard...
...That new function combined with the old but still necessary task of fighting insurgents can be overwhelming. Gove, like other Marine commanders in al Qaim, is mindful that he risks pushing his men past their limits as he attempts to blanket the area with American troops. "You can't burn these guys out," says Gové. "On the other hand, you can't leave a section of town uncovered - because wherever we aren't, that's where [the insurgents...