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North Korean poverty is a result of a dearth of market opportunity, not agricultural inability, said University of Warwick Professor Hazel Smith to an audience of about thirty at Harvard’s Korea Institute yesterday...
...Lovins, combining low mass and drag in cars with advanced propulsion not only provides a cheap way to save two thirds of the fuel needed but also yields a better performance. Lovins argued that the problem is not a lack of energy-efficient technology in transportation, but rather a dearth of knowledge on the part of companies about newer alternatives. “The innovation tree keeps pelting our heads with new fruit—what part of that don’t we get?” he said. One of Lovins’s key points...
...weekend, Jason B. McCoy ’08, the SLAO’s Campus Life Fellow, pointed out that “there will be room parties going on in the houses on Friday night,” implying that these room parties are a legitimate alternative to the dearth of dining hall parties. Not only does this indicate the dearth of viable party options, but it also marks the lack of communication between University Hall and the House masters, since at least one House, Currier, is in fact not having any parties this weekend—dining hall, room...
...economists and analysts worry that the dearth of consumer confidence, despite a low unemployment rate of about 4%, could weigh heavily in the long run. "A negative view of the world is more ingrained here," says Schuster. "People are more prepared to think that this downturn will last." Shirakawa says the mind-set of the Japanese public, which he calls structural pessimism, is, "Oh, it's a recession again" - a sentiment learned from the trials and tribulations faced during the Lost Decade. There is no easy solution to this endemic lack of confidence, he says; it requires different policy solutions...
...part of the excitement involved in beer brewing stems from the relative dearth of knowledge about the process. Although the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub is doing its share to raise beer awareness on campus, inviting specialty brewers to speak, beer expertise still isn’t mainstream. I knew next to nothing about brewing myself, though it’s surprisingly easy. The process, essentially liquid baking, can be broken down into five steps...