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...energy and politics clambered into a huge hole in the Finnish town of Olkiluoto to watch a laser light show as the climax to the ground breaking for the first nuclear plant to be built in Europe in 14 years. The winner of the €3 billion plant contract was Areva, in a joint subsidiary with Germany's Siemens. China currently has nine nuclear reactors in operation and says it will increase its nuclear capacity fivefold by 2020. The Chinese are expected to select a Western contractor for two new plants this year. The race is between Areva, Westinghouse...
...Adkins’ platform boasts an ambitious set of goals, from terminating the current city manager’s contract to abolishing the tax exemption for Cambridge’s two large universities, Harvard...
...Adkins has also called for the termination of the city manager’s contract. The city manager, appointed by the City Council, oversees the day-to-day operation of the city while the mayor has a more ceremonial role. The current city manager, Robert W. Healy, has been in office since...
...graduate student union at New York University (NYU)—the only such union at a private university in the country—voted earlier this week to strike on Nov. 9 if the administration continues its refusal to participate in contract negotiations.The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)—which is affiliated with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110—has been without a contract since Aug. 31, when its original four-year agreement with NYU expired.Eighty-five percent of the members of GSOC voted in favor of setting the Nov. 9 strike deadline, according...
Deciding to go to Harvard is usually a no-brainer, but for Katie E. Fitzgerald ’09, the choice was a little less obvious. Fitzgerald, who spent the last two years in Los Angeles living off a contract with Jive Records, was on her way to becoming a star when she decided to enroll at Harvard instead. But she insists that her decision wasn’t a hard one. “I wasn’t one of those kids who knew they wanted to be on MTV,” she says...