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...times as much as regular concrete, industry officials say price comparisons are misleading because the high-tech versions have different properties that make them more comparable to materials such as stainless steel or aluminum - which are often more expensive still. The latest concretes have other advantages, including setting much faster. That's giving architects, engineers and builders far greater flexibility to use the material's long-lasting, thermal and acoustic properties in everything from pedestrian bridges to bus stations - and, in turn, contributing to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete used...
...Soon, he acknowledged, he may have to join the exodus out of Guangdong province of migrant workers, now jobless, who are headed back to their hometowns in less-prosperous parts of the country. This exodus - the reversal of more than two decades of migration from poor rural areas to faster-growing, coastal cities - is most visible at the Guangzhou train station, where hundreds of migrants, all bearing suitcases and shopping bags crammed with their worldly belongings, sit outside for hours waiting to board trains home. On Nov. 26, Zhang De Jun, 35, was one of them. For 10 years...
...actually disagree very much with the foreign policy he laid out during the campaign. Jones is on record calling the Iraq war a "debacle" and urging that the detention center at Guantánamo Bay be closed "tomorrow." Gates has also reportedly pushed for closing Gitmo and for faster withdrawals from Iraq. He has called a military strike against Iran a "strategic calamity," urged diplomacy with Tehran's mullahs and denounced the "creeping militarization" of U.S. foreign policy. (You don't hear that from a Defense Secretary every day.) For her part, Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign embraced an Iraq...
...first time in history, more women than men are earning doctoral degrees in every racial and ethnic group, according to a recent report published by the National Science Foundation. In the sciences and engineering, the number of degrees awarded to women also grew at a faster rate than the number awarded to men. But the most drastic difference between the genders was in the humanities: awards to women in these fields grew by 7 percent since 2003, while awards to men remained flat. Jaquelina C. Falkenheim, a co-author of the report, said in an interview yesterday that...
...team, several resident deans and proctors, and a field of cots for intoxicated students. Student perception of the restrictions’ impact was generally mixed. Veronica M. Maldonado ’11, a Cabot House resident, said she found that the tailgating restrictions generally encouraged game-goers to drink faster and earlier. Their thirst satiated, many went on to leave the game before half-time, she said. “I think that it was definitely harder to have fun,” she said. Others said they found little negative impact. “I wasn?...