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...brilliant," says one political aide in Baghdad. "He decided early on he had to go beyond the book." Chafing at the Pentagon's penny-pinching bureaucracy, Petraeus - whose Princeton thesis was entitled "The American military and the Lessons of Vietnam" -opted early on in the occupation to spend every cent of his discretionary budget on community projects around Mosul. Minutes into TIME's interview this week, he can scarcely wait to report that the defunct asphalt factory in Mosul which he reopened last year is now producing 200 tons a day. "There are trees falling in the forest...
Quincy succeeded in purchasing TRCs amounting to a little more than two percent of its annual electricity usage, at a one-time cost of $399. This comes out to a premium of one cent per kilowatt-hour on top of the retail rate of electricity of roughly five to 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. This simple calculation yields some huge insight—if the University were to supply all its electricity using renewable energy, it would have to either purchase TRCs or invest in a wind farm of its own. Quincy’s Wind Project combines both TRCs...
...desire to enlist in the new Corps must be 18 at the time of their enlistment, but not over 45 at the time of their graduation. Not more than 20 per cent of the quota assigned to a given institution may consist of students under the age of 18 who have agreed in writing to enlist in the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps when they attain the age of 18. Physical requirements remain unchanged...
...more ottomans, but soon I’m down to $1.55 and I haven’t had a good hand all game. The 20 cent big blind comes to me—down to $1.35. I will win this hand! I bend my two cards up from the Ottoman: Kind of Diamonds. Ace of Clubs. That’s worth ten cents more...
...Dartmouth freshmen have an intelligence test within the first week or so of their arrival. Then as the term goes on scholastic marks are compared with the percentages indicated by the test. If a man whose test indicated that he belonged in the brightest 10 per cent., of the class gets marks that rank him in the dullest 10 per cent., he becomes an object of study...