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...building’s lighting system is not only equipped with motion sensors but also dims when it detects the presence of an abundance of natural light. At night, windows open and allow night air to rush in and cool the building and the accumulated daytime heat to exit...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Stanford Facility Goes Green | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...false rumors that he's Muslim) and his longtime pastor (who has praised Louis Farrakhan). Several Jewish leaders have defended Obama against the Islam rumors. Hillary Clinton won among Jewish voters in New York and Maryland, but Obama won Jews in Connecticut and California. Is the wooing working? Exit polls in Texas and Ohio on March 4 should tell which candidate is the chosen people's choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...This activity is not going down at all well in Liechtenstein, a country so small you would drive past it if you missed the highway exit. Its people feel bullied. "It's just like the Germans," seethes Sandra Tinner, a 39-year-old storekeeper in the village of Triesenberg, just above Vaduz. "They ought to put their own house in order before they start attacking others." Crown Prince Alois, Liechtenstein's acting head of state, has himself denounced Germany's "unprovoked attack" on his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving a Banking Boom from Berlin | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...Sunday strategy was clearly meant to tamp down reform expectations -which the younger Castro, who has nudged Cuba's moribund economy toward capitalism and encouraged more open debate about its totalitarian politics, may have felt were rising too quickly for him to meet in the wake of Fidel's exit. "Raul has to proceed cautiously," concedes Brian Latell, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami and author of After Fidel. "In the past 18 months he has elevated popular expectations. Now he has to manage them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba, Still a Country for Old Men | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...black community. Throughout the book, his arguments fall flat because of his conception of Black America. If the requirement for citizenship in Black America is only a matter of choice—Kennedy asserts that people “ought to be permitted presumptively to enter and exit racial categories at their choosing, even if the choices made clash with conventional understandings of racial classification”—then does racial treason really exist? Ultimately, Kennedy’s undertaking can be summed up with one word: grapple. Indeed, Kennedy wrestles with the validity of the idea that...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kennedy's 'Sellout' Sells Readers Short | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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