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...changes, but I hope that Dean Kagan is as committed to the academic changes she discussed as well. There are a lot of things that need big scary changes, like the first year law [program] where the legal writing is too compartmentalized,” HLS first-year Jennifer Carter said...
...encouraging note in Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele's report on the U.S.'s impending fuel crunch was the success of Jimmy Carter's effort to reduce oil consumption, something that is clearly not a goal of the oilmen in the Bush Administration [SPECIAL REPORT, July 21]. The obvious solution to the energy crisis, though not the one Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney want to see, is conservation, mandated improvement of energy efficiency and development of renewable sources of energy. Pretty simple--unless your primary goal is increased profits for oil companies. CHARLENE M. WOODCOCK Berkeley, Calif...
DIED. BENNY CARTER, 95, versatile jazz arranger, songwriter and bandleader regarded as one of the three modern masters of the alto sax (with Johnny Hodges and Charlie Parker); in Los Angeles. Idolized by peers for his clean, lilting, meticulous style, he was less famous in the U.S. than fellow bandleaders Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller--all of whom flocked to him for arrangements. The author of such hits as Only Trust Your Heart and the novelty tune Cow Cow Boogie, Carter turned his focus to Hollywood in the early 1940s, arranging and composing for films like...
With that notion in mind, President Carter in 1980 pushed legislation that he said would help "us to reach our goal of deriving 20% of all the energy we use by the end of this century directly from the sun." The forecast proved breathtakingly overreaching. Last year solar energy accounted for about seven one-hundredths of 1% of all U.S. energy consumption. The Bush energy package includes a $2,000 tax credit for individuals who buy and install photovoltaic or solar water-heating equipment in their residences...
That's about what President Carter envisioned more than 20 years ago--albeit with a different timetable--when he signed into law the Magnetic Fusion Engineering Act in 1980. Said Carter: "Fusion power offers the potential for a limitless energy source with manageable environmental effects." The law established as a national goal the successful operation of a magnetic fusion-demonstration plant...