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TerraCycle staff members also must deal with components that differ slightly from those in the last batch--worm excrement with nitrate levels a touch lower than last month's, nozzles that don't fit properly in the boxes being shipped to stores. "There tends to be a lot of variability, so you have to be vigilant about quality control," says Cotton. The company's vice president of R&D, Bill Gillum, rolls his eyes. "Variability is a good word for it," he says. Fixing the never ending problems takes ingenuity and typically a lot of labor. But that...
...Despite audience members’ acrimony, the debate itself lacked much controversy. On the topic of improving local traffic conditions, Firenze responded to Brownsberger’s answer with “ditto.” Only on the Iraq war and abortion did the candidates differ. Firenze felt that it would be a “bad idea”—and unconstitutional—for the governor to withdraw the state’s National Guard from Iraq. But Brownsberger said, “I support our troops, and think they should come home...
...materials were considered” by the SBAC, Kidd wrote in an an e-mail. But “all of the work of the Student Business Advisory Committee is confidential,” she added. Jones and Schofield-Bodt are adamant that their Harvard tours differ significantly from all others—listing their scope and off-beat, performance-like qualities as reasons why. Jones told podcast “Boston Behind The Scenes” in August that “unlike the other tours that are often times dry and extremely lame, to be honest...our tours...
...decision, telling The Boston Globe that “there are people in this state who have suffered from terrorism, and taking even a dollar of their money to support a terrorist is unacceptable.” Apparently the types of terrorism and human rights abuses manifested in Pakistan differ from those in Iran.Then the Harvard College Democrats presented five seemingly reasonable demands, calling for Khatami to admit his alleged role in multiple human rights abuses and to distance himself from the views of current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Dems also protested in front of the Kennedy School. Their leader...
...globalization cannot be reduced to 600-800 words. Thomas Friedman, recognizing the limitations of his column, wrote a full-length book on globalization to fill in the gaps of analysis left in the interstitial spaces between his previous columns. Then he did it all over again.News stories do, however, differ from columns. Here the problem is not poor and hasty analysis (although Bush, in fact, does refer to the media as a “filter” of the news). Instead the type of news found in newspapers, on the radio, and on television can act as a distraction...