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...will be a missed opportunity if our new dean is not interested in this new frontier of design and collaboration,” wrote Cote, who is also the school’s assistant director of computer resources...
Democracy has reached a new frontier, and we’re not talking about the Berlin Wall. It’s a new decade and a new millennium, and yet another wall is crumbling—this time, not between countries, but in the domain of scientific research.New Internet-based journals are challenging the status quo by publishing works that have not yet passed the usual, rigorous peer-review system, giving any cyber-citizen the power to appraise many novel scientific inquiries. And it’s all too easy to underestimate the potential for science this experiment brings.The hermetic...
...PETER BHAKTA, former contestant on The Apprentice and Republican candidate for Congress from Pennsylvania, who paraded an elephant and a mariachi band through the Rio Grande along the Texas-Mexico frontier to make a statement about lax border control...
...became full members of the Harvard community. In the past decade, the changes have accelerated; the advent of affirmative action has made diversity of every form a goal of most universities.As it should be. But while we firmly believe that a diverse campus is a strong campus, a new frontier has been reached that deserves further scrutiny—affirmative action for gay students.This past Monday, “Inside Higher Ed” reported that Middlebury College had decided to “give students who identify themselves as gay in the admissions process an “attribute...
...member) has laid out an aggressive energy plan using coal over the next two decades. Coal production is expected to soar from 1.1 billion tons a year to 1.8 billion--mostly from the West, especially Wyoming's Powder River Basin. New transmission lines, like the $6 billion Frontier Line, will carry electricity from the coalfields of Wyoming to consumers in California. Peabody Energy, the nation's largest coal company, with 2005 sales of $4.6 billion, up 28%, and earnings of $423 million, up 140%, is in acquisition mode worldwide. The Bush Administration has put down its own $2 billion...