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...long been a dream of ecovisionaries. Falling costs for equipment and steadily rising efficiency have finally brought solar power into the realm of the practical. The most solid indication that the technology is here to stay: 68 utilities, serving 40% of the nation's electricity consumers, formed a consortium to buy $500 million worth of solar-energy panels during the next six years. That promises to be just the jump-start solar manufacturers need to hold their own with the big boys in the oil and gas industries...
...making merry not when we were done watching the previous week’s lectures on tape, but when there were no more dishes to wash.Once during the weekend, my cell phone rang. So I turned it off.Last spring, there was much fuss made about a survey by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) that ranked Harvard fifth-from-last among 31 elite schools in terms of student satisfaction. Graduating seniors gave fair Harvard poor reviews for, among other things, the quality of students’ social life. University Hall’s response—in motion even...
It’s not that students don’t want to talk. When a consortium of student groups hosted a workshop on the female orgasm last semester, the room was packed beyond capacity and many students were turned away. Students want information. They’re just waiting for people to provide it to them...
...what’s envisioned as your successor, Core, multitudinous choices and lack of focus will metastasize, not shrink. That important knowledge that might be a liberal arts education is, in truth, just a banal consortium of recommended “Harvard College Courses...
...project, titled The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, involved 67 scientists from five countries. It found 40 million DNA base pair differences in the two genetic codes that resulted from either random mutations or complete insertions and deletions of DNA. However, researchers said many of these differences may have no function...