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...firm but measured fashion, Obama spent time at each stop turning back the criticisms leveled at him by the Clinton campaign. He said the "real gamble" was not being a relative newcomer to presidential politics, but was instead "to expect the same old folks doing the same old thing over and over and over" to make a difference. "We have to turn the page...
Farmers don't have a lot of experience growing switchgrass for fuel, but Vogel points out that as the crop is more widely adopted on farms, we can expect the yield to grow - perhaps even double, as corn yields have over the past few decades. But there's still a long way to go before you'll be able to fill your tank with switchgrass. Getting energy out of the tough cellulose molecules in a stalk of switchgrass is much more difficult than distilling it from corn, or better, sugar cane. Both the Department of Energy (DoE) and private companies...
...find Harvard easy, but disabled students have a particularly difficult time. Often reliant on sophisticated technology, disabled people do the same work at a slower pace. Additionally, college institutions designed to help them can sometimes be a hindrance amid intermittent delays and unclear expectations. Fortunately, much of this appears to be a problem of organization that could be solved by streamlining and improving resources for disabled students.Over the past twenty years, new technology and legal protections have enabled students with disabilities to attend college in greater numbers. In 1990, 40 students registered with Harvard as disabled; today that number...
...this legislation and recommend that the Committee on College Life make the proposed change to the handbook. Though, to our knowledge, the administration has not abused its power to peek into students’ e-mail accounts, students have a right to know exactly how much privacy they can expect and have some assurance that the administration will not conduct fishing expeditions into students’ e-mail before any disciplinary charges have been brought. Furthermore, adding transparency to the process by requiring notification and by providing a means to appeal would keep student privacy concerns from being ignored while...
...Cornell’s a growing team. We have to expect a really big game,” Vaillancourt said...