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...even cancel their orders. Emirates, the single biggest customer with orders for 45 planes, said it is "reviewing all options." Streiff's revitalization plan is supposed to make Airbus a more reliable and efficient partner. It seeks to cut two years off the time it takes to develop a new aircraft, boost productivity by 20%, and slash €2 billion in manufacturing costs annually. The company will negotiate the cuts with union and political leaders in its 16 different manufacturing locations in four countries, but that is already creating turbulence. French and German politicians and union leaders quickly weighed...
...year history, eclipsing the one NSF gave in 2000, the previous highest, by nearly one million dollars. The Harvard Forest will use the recent grant to support the work of over 25 scientists, and further research on issues like global warming, land use, invasive species, forest clearance and development. Since 1988, NSF has been renewing the grant to the Harvard Forest every six years—increasing the grant amount each time. “We’re trying to look at effective management and conservation approaches for dealing with these issues long-term,” said David...
...formed in the 12th and 13th centuries partly in opposition to the University of Paris. The last adhered to the lazy continental practice of off-campus housing, where students would live in the city and connect with their teachers only at lectures. Instead, Oxford and Cambridge sought to develop residential colleges—what the founders of Harvard would later call “a real college” instead of the NYU-like nonsense—to foster student-faculty interaction...
...good news, though, is that we can develop prudent, home-grown strategies that make sense, without turning schoolyards into armed camps. Here are commonsense steps that should be taken...
...Right now, I think, the majority of the leadership believes that weaponizing nuclear materials has very few benefits for Iran, but carries huge risks. There is, however, broad agreement among Iran's leaders that they should develop all the civilian nuclear technology allowed under the Non-Proliferation Treaty - and that, of course, would create infrastructure that would give them the option of building nuclear weapons very quickly if they chose to. So the consensus is not to build weapons, but to build nuclear infrastructure that would give them the option of building weapons. Whether or not they do so will...