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...State of the Union address, President Bush let loose a string of incredible whoppers about the promise of hydrogen fuel. What our President, and much of the general public, fail to realize is that hydrogen cars are currently an unrealistic dream that will neither reduce our dependence on foreign oil nor improve the environment...
...always act rationally. Sometimes when the computer says natural gas should go up, it goes down. That happens. What shouldn’t happen is that we put so much faith in models and systems and forget that there are risks to these trades, bets that can fail, and individuals that can get hurt...
...Unless he changes track, Ahmadinejad could soon be left with a small core of supporters, composed mostly of the provincial poor and radicals who share his hard-line ideology. One of my cousins still keeps faith in the president, correcting me when I fail to call him Dr. Ahmadinejad, as supporters do. "Who else stood up for Hizballah when the Israelis attacked Lebanon?" my cousin asks. But most Iranians seem to be concerned more with everyday issues like the cost of groceries and the lack of good jobs. On a recent hike with a group of Iranians from around...
Getting to Harvard Will the admissions change stick? Harvard may call off its decision to end early admissions next fall--a move aimed at helping poor and minority students--if the quality of applicants drops or other colleges fail to follow suit...
Schools that fail to make adequate progress for two consecutive years in any one of these four areas are tagged as “needing improvement,” meaning that parents must be given the option of sending their child to other schools in the district...