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Gate says the new faculty were not hired in response to West’s and Appiah’s departures but to fill positions that had been previously available...
...identify subject areas that you need, and you go to the best person in the world to fill them, like all other Harvard positions,” Gates says...
...stay up--it's now time to bring in more expensive LNG from the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and possibly Russia. To import natural gas, it must be chilled to minus 260F, which converts it to a liquid and reduces its volume. An amount that would normally fill a beach ball can fit inside a Ping-Pong ball. When the liquid arrives at terminals in the U.S., it is slowly warmed up, returned to a vapor form and sent through pipelines...
...CONSERVATION--BUT NOT FOR REAL MEN. After the 1973-74 energy crisis, when gas stations closed on Sundays and motorists waited in lines for hours to fill up, Congress enacted a series of tough conservation measures. The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 imposed stringent mileage requirements on automakers--an average of 27.5 m.p.g. on passenger cars by model year 1985--to curb gasoline consumption. It worked...
...leaving, and I won't believe he's going until he does," Breaux told TIME. But the three-term centrist Democratic Senator may not run for re-election in 2004, especially if a Democrat wins the Louisiana Governor's race this fall, thus ensuring that a Democrat would fill out his term. Said a spokesman for Tauzin, who insists he is running in '04: "No job has been offered, and we all know Jack's going to be running Hollywood from heaven." At 81, however, Valenti wants to retire as soon as a successor has been picked. Studio heads will...