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...that there's a lot of uncertainty when it comes to biofuels. But it's not good uncertainty. Study after study suggests that growing fuel could be a disaster for the planet, while raising global food prices and promoting global food riots. The amount of grain it takes to fill an SUV with ethanol could feed an adult for a year; we need every acre of farmland to feed the world. President Obama never claimed to be a reformer when it came to ethanol, and he and Vilsack have been big supporters of next-generation biofuels. Maybe there's nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Historically at Harvard, when school expertise in a particular area either does not exist or is not available within reasonable time constraints, outside consultants have been used to fill the gap. Last year, the FAS spent nearly $10 million on external consultants. Instead FAS will utilize the expertise available within the University to accomplish such tasks. This will require a commitment to the “One Harvard” perspective, and will necessitate greater communication and collaboration across schools. Only in rare cases when required expertise simply does not exist within the University will outside consultants be used...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Budget Plinko, Part I | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

Historically at Harvard, when school expertise in a particular area either does not exist or is not available within reasonable time constraints, outside consultants have been used to fill the gap. Last year, the FAS spent nearly $10 million on external consultants. Instead FAS will utilize the expertise available within the University to accomplish such tasks. This will require a commitment to the “One Harvard” perspective, and will necessitate greater communication and collaboration across schools. Only in rare cases when required expertise simply does not exist within the University will outside consultants be used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: List of FAS Budget Measures, May 11 | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...also an opportunity for friends and family to come over and do some of this as well. It's a huge house and myself and my girlfriend are going to rattle around in there so we need some people to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Southall: The Best Job in the World | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...pros and cons, they had until the last mail pickup on Friday to postmark a deposit to reserve a spot in next year's freshman class. In this spring of economic certainty, many nationally known schools are sweating over whether they'll enroll, or "yield," enough students to fill the class - an outcome officials won't know for sure until all the deposits are tallied over the coming weeks. But in a tiny corner of Kentucky, one little college is doing just fine. Berea College is on track to yield 78% of the students it accepted this year - and thereby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deci$ion$: How One College Snags So Many Students | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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