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...absence of congressional action, such loan guarantees allow Obama to implement his energy policy directly, without the dithering Senate. As long as the much better-funded nuclear industry doesn't eclipse nascent renewables - which lack the lobbying muscle of the atomics - there should be room for all. "The fact is, changing the ways we produce and use energy requires us to think anew," said Obama. "That's what we must do. And that is what we have begun...
Even more important is the fact that the DNA analyses put names to several of the unidentified mummies in the ancient Egyptian collection. By looking at overlaps in the subjects' genomes, the scientists were able to put together a plausible family tree. For example, they were able to identify a mummy known only as KV55 as probably being Akhenaten, the controversial pharaoh who radically reinvented Egyptian society. "It's really incredible," says Pusch, "that we've given a name to what was an anonymous mummy." (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
...fact is, non-binding resolutions are ineffective and only divert Congress’s attention from our nation’s myriad problems. The majority of these missives receive virtually no media coverage, nor do they influence government policy. It took Congress eight days after the Haitian earthquake to pass H.Res. 1021, a non-binding expression of “condolences and solidarity.” (During those eight days, they named four post offices.) The high-minded Congressional statement likely offered little solace to Haitians trapped beneath rubble and distracted from governmental efforts to bring tangible benefits to those...
Being 36 years old changes you a lot, and so does eight years away from career, fame, needing attention, needing to be loved by strangers on some level. I was loving anonymity. I was loving the fact that I could meet a girl who didn't know who I was. I enjoyed it very much, I have...
With the Gothic eaves of Annenberg and the presence of a real-life Quidditch team, people are always saying that Harvard is a little bit like Hogwarts—which would be true save for the fact that students here don't wear robes. Or so we thought. Now, with the “Currier Bathrobe Projekt,” it seems that robes (well, bathrobes to be specific) will have a much more visible presence on campus, especially up in the Quad...