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...their next game, so we’re going to get their completely best shot,” he said. Getting over the draining loss Wednesday to get up for tomorrow’s game is a tough task, but one factor working in Harvard’s favor is the depth of the team. The Crimson has shown so far that it can play as many as ten different players throughout the game, with little drop-off from the starters to the reserves. “We played 10 guys tonight and I anticipate we’re going...
Network digitally. For help in landing a job, the unemployed are digging ever deeper into their address books, not to mention their favor banks. And they're not just dialing up old friends and recruiters. They're also digitizing their Rolodexes. LinkedIn, a professional-networking site whose members' average household income is $110,000, has 32 million members. A new member signs up every second; a million join every two weeks. The site, which has new job-search functions in the works, already lets employment seekers figure out what connections they have to people who work at companies that...
...Columbia University in New York City, Despommier teaches about parasitism, environmental disruption and other assorted happy topics. Eventually his students complained; they wanted to work on something optimistic. So the class began studying the idea of rooftop gardening for cities. They quickly discarded that approach--too small-scale--in favor of something more ambitious: a 30-story urban farm with a greenhouse on every floor. "I think vertical farming is an idea that can work in a big way," says Despommier. (See pictures of urban farming...
Despite the poor reception, not all students were in favor of installing new transmitters in the Quad...
...filibuster is "one of the most abused parliamentary tools of the Senate." - speaking in favor of legislative reform, during his race against Chris Dodd to be Senate Majority Leader, New York Times...