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...than I’d have thought possible,” New wrote. “He is not great at holding on to belongings, however, so I bought him a super-duper carry on for his birthday that holds his laptop, around 600 pages of reading material and clean shirts and socks...
...season at Lake Carnegie, N.J., against MIT and last year’s national champions, Princeton, for the Compton Cup. The Tigers, having lost many of their best oarsmen to graduation, were not much of a match this time around, as Princeton and MIT both succumbed to another clean sweep by the Crimson’s boats. The varsity race was tight at first, with Harvard lagging behind Princeton for much of the course. But the Crimson recovered to win by almost a length...
...boats focused more on their speed off the line, which resulted in wins by the varsity, second varsity, varsity four, and second freshman boats. The freshman eight was not far behind the winning Big Green oarsmen, only 1.8 seconds away from a victory and a clean sweep of the day’s races...
When this works, it can be impressive. The Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 were 13 years in the making (eight of them fairly quiet years as a result of the Reagan Administration's opposition to the bill). When Dingell at last brought the legislation to a vote, however, the amendments passed almost unanimously. But can the strategy work in today's more evenly--and bitterly--divided House...
Dingell would prefer to do away with the existing CAFE system for measuring fuel efficiency and replace it with a system that measures tailpipe emissions. After all, a car that runs 25 miles on a gallon of clean biodiesel might be preferable environmentally to a car that runs 35 miles on gasoline or liquid coal...