Word: celling
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Clinton was next, in a Manhattan gym several stories underground, where even cell phones died. A Clinton hasn't given a concession speech since 1980, so anyone looking for an acknowledgment of defeat was hunting for teacups at the hardware store. She congratulated Obama on the race he had run without noting that he'd won it, and called every vote for her "a prayer for the nation," as though she alone could answer...
...weeks ago a group of Harvard students from all corners of the globe, and with expertise ranging from economics to engineering, won the World Bank’s Lighting Africa 2008 competition. Their invention of a microbial fuel cell-based lighting system literally creates energy from dirt. The device is intended to provide a reliable and safe means of illumination in a country where roughly only 1/4 of the population has access to electricity...
...modeled by behavioral economists interested in quantifying the extent to which people are averse to inequality. In order for the social theorist or ethicist to develop such models, however, certain foundational mathematical skills are necessary. Questions of scientific inquiry—from global climate change to the impact of cell phone usage on brain tumors—have become ever relevant to our daily lives; if we are to make informed decisions about issues at the intersection of science and policy, we can’t be daunted by empirical argumentation...
...while his tenure fleshed out the plan for a new Allston campus, jump started the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and saw the greatest undergraduate financial aid initiative in Harvard’s history, it also ended with chaos and, ultimately, his resignation, as the Faculty decried their removal from the decision-making process...
...empty bottle of Veuve Cliquot champagne from the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) nestled in Kramer’s office among flowery artwork and copies of Plant Cell magazine is the only remaining evidence of her step from one of the least secure occupations in academia to one of the most...