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What's creating the most excitement is a project called the International Consortium for Brain Mapping, a 12-year collaborative effort to create an atlas of the human brain, based on scans of 7,000 brains from three continents. Coordinated by John Mazziotta, who runs the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA, the brain atlas is due to be released online next year. Data are being stored and analyzed on a supercomputer at UCLA with 1 petabyte of capacity--equivalent to a book with 250 billion pages. "They are laying the groundwork for all other brain studies to come...
...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...