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...biotech industry is blossoming with the official opening on Monday of the North Carolina Research Center in Kannapolis, just 30 minutes from downtown Charlotte. The public-private partnership is the vision of David Murdock, the billionaire owner of Dole Food Company and Castle & Cooke. Estimates are that eventually the campus will create 5,500 biotech jobs locally and 37,000 related jobs across the region. More than symbolic, the NCRC stands on the grounds of a former textile mill, Pillowtex, which closed in 2003 with a loss of nearly 5,000 jobs...
Perhaps most importantly, Sustainability Week was about actions, not just words. The event marked the official unveiling of Harvard’s new Office for Sustainability (successor to the Harvard Green Campus Initiative), which will be charged with making good on Harvard’s promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2016. What will truly define the legacy of Sustainability Week will be this body’s actions, and we hope that it will use the goodwill generated by the recent events to catalyze further progress in Harvard’s environmental development...
...Harvard Hookups,” which folded in 2006. She began working on revamping the show at the beginning of this school year. “The goal of the show is to highlight how much fun Harvard students are. We would love to promote dating on campus,” she said. On the show, one bachelor or bachelorette will choose a date from a panel of three single students. In the first round, the bachelor will ask an open-ended question, after which one competitor will be eliminated. The second round will consist...
...recent campus efforts to reduce Harvard’s carbon footprint, and the excessive lengths to which the administration has gone to promote them, threaten to render the whole project ridiculous and inspire contempt for the cause in the minds of most reasonable observers...
...Supporter and Outstanding Alumnus awards. The weekend was a continuation of Sustainability Week and marked a reorganization of the PBHA Alumni Association (PBHA-A) with events on service and networking. According to PBHA-A leaders, the association has a new structure intended to focus on bringing alums back to campus to provide current undergraduates with networking opportunities. Grace C. Hou ’06, secretary of PBHA-A, said the weekend emphasized the goals of the alumni organization to promote professional networking and public service and public interest opportunities, especially in light of the current economic crisis...