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With dim prospects for UC funding, these fashion shows turn to outside sources for financial support—sources that find charitable impulses a pull for funding rather than a drawback. “I think when you have an organization that caters to minority or underrepresented students, there’s usually a cause attached. Since they are either donating to charity or helping out underrepresented students, companies are more willing to sign on,” says Farah S. Qadar ’10, the president of the Association of Minority Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs (AMBLE), which recently...
Despite the film’s varied artistic strengths, a significant drawback are the sometimes-confusing transitions and occasional lack of continuity. The latter is especially evident when Ida’s son is suddenly introduced as an adult after an inexplicable temporal leap in the narrative. To make matters even more confusing, the adult son is played by the same actor who portrays Mussolini. Furthermore, although the montages of real-life Italian scenes of political turmoil accompanying the events in the film constitute a very interesting approach to crafting a fictionalized historical account, their unexpected placement undermines the sense...
...controversial move, the army is also giving weapons and training to "friendly" tribes so they can keep militants out of their territories. The drawback: some critics argue that if a tribe again becomes disillusioned with Islamabad - and it wouldn't be the first time - these militias will simply swell the ranks of the Pakistani Taliban, taking their new guns with them...
...waste-disposal problems, safety issues and regulatory delays create a much more serious obstacle to a nuclear comeback: they jack up the already exorbitant cost of construction. That is the truly serious drawback of nuclear energy. Recent studies have priced new nuclear power at 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour, about four times the cost of producing juice with new wind or coal plants, or 10 times the cost of reducing the need for electricity through investments in efficiency. Nuclear energy is much cleaner than coal, and it provides baseload power when the wind isn't blowing...
Another way to get a green cleaning is to use liquid carbon dioxide. CO2 is nontoxic - thankfully, since so much of it is in the atmosphere. In CO2 cleaning, clothes are put in a vacuum chamber with gaseous and liquid CO2, which dissolves dirt and oil. The drawback here is price: a new CO2 dry-cleaning machine can run more than $100,000. Cleaning green "does take longer and cost more," admits Kistner. How much more? Green Apple charges at least $6.16 to clean a shirt using wet methods or CO2. (See TIME's special report on the climate change...