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...Dhabi know--perhaps better than most--that the oil won't last forever, so they have embarked on the Masdar Initiative, a multibillion-dollar push to establish the emirate as a center for clean-technology development and innovation. Those plans include Masdar City, designed by British architect Norman Foster, as well as a $250 million clean-tech investment fund and an energy-engineering school linked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If it all works, this desert emirate could become the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy and a living model for the way technological innovation could defuse the threat...
...Binder, the Adams dining hall staff will enforce the inter-house restrictions strictly, according to Adams dining hall worker and card swiper Lucy F. Medeiros. “No inter-house, no guests. Just Adams House people,” she said. As part of the effort to foster a sense of community, the first Adams-only dinner tonight will include a reintroduction of the House tutors, Corriel said. The Adams community nights mimic similar restrictions in place at Quincy House, which has long held Quincy-only community nights every Thursday. The House chose Wednesday for the Adams-only dinners...
...pick comes as part of a recent push by Hammonds to foster greater diversity among House Masters, a group that currently contains no minority members. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...corporation receiving federal bailout money will be permitted to earn more than $500,000 a year. While taking note of the move’s limited potential impact and the political motives that likely underlie it, we embrace the president’s decision and hope it will foster both discussion and behavioral changes...
Similar measures to "buy American" have been adopted or considered in Argentina, China, Indonesia, Ecuador, India, Russia and Vietnam. Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization, warned on Feb. 2 that any go-it-alone route would foster a spiral of retaliation. "Today we run the risk of sliding down a slippery slope of tit-for-tat measures. It was Mahatma Gandhi who said 'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,' " Lamy said...