Word: coal
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...alas, though technology’s progress is inevitable, it is also fickle. Just as cold fusion failed to free the world from oil and coal, so has the online course registration system, as of yet, failed to bring its promised benefit to Harvard. Testing and implementation of this comprehensive new system is doubtless necessarily painstaking. However, we pray that the College implements this technological marvel as soon as it is able, so those in the student body scheduled to graduate next June will be offered a fleeting glimpse of the future of the registrar?...
...customers these days, he prefers to stay on his feet rather than sit in one place, he says, "because it's harder to hit a moving target." It has been that kind of year for UP, the nation's No. 1 freight carrier, which moves millions of tons of coal, lumber, automobiles, corn--you name it--each...
...Davis and her husband after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the nonaggression pact early in World War II,her children told the Boston Globe in 1993. But Davis remained vocal about progressive issues through her speeches and writing. She wrote magazine articles about the Harlan County coal strike and the hardship of Southern tenant farming...
...fate of one stubborn little village normally wouldn't make much of a splash. But Shishmaref and other Alaskan settlements are attracting national attention because scientists see them as gloomy harbingers. "Shishmaref is the canary in the coal mine--an indicator of what's to come elsewhere," says Gunter Weller, director of the University of Alaska's Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research...
VALLIERE: A pure play here would be coal. Kerry and his wife have a strong bias against coal in terms of regulations and emissions. But they would be good for alternatives like wind and solar. Florida Power & Light is considered the leader in developing wind power...