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...Highlights: • The Dirty: Not surprisingly, California - a state beset by air pollution and struggling to amend its fuel-efficiency standards in order to stave off the effects of global warming - contained a good portion of the most-polluted counties and cities in America. Other highly polluted areas, such as the tri-state New York-Connecticut-New Jersey region and the Chicago area, also made it into the top 25 most air-polluted places. The charts - categorized by short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and year-round ozone pollution - break down how many people afflicted by illnesses such...
...Unfortunately, my first new car - a 1979 Pontiac Sunbird - was an unfitting $5,300 homage to the old warrior. It was a lemon, a cut-rate and an ill-aimed stab at beating the Japanese competition in the growing market for smaller cars spawned by rising fuel prices. None of the Pontiac heritage had rubbed off on the Sunbird. After the car saw several years of gentle driving, mostly by my wife, an interior door handle popped off. The fan knob went kaput, and the radio played only intermittently. The final indignity was when the hood release broke, making...
...curtail it. Yet no one seems to expect this to happen. Papers relay the boasts of pirates that they will exact "revenge" on Americans. How so? On whose behalf? Such solidarity is less typical of entrepreneurs than it is of terrorists and guerrillas. When Phillips' captors ran out of fuel, they radioed other pirate-held ships for help. There is talk of pirate dens on and near the Somali coasts: Harardhere, Eyl, Boosaaso. "Den" is a quaint, Peter Pan - ish way of putting it. "Enemy naval base" might be more...
...gathered here is that it’s a place that kids can come not knowing what they want to be,” said Cesar Alcantar, whose daughter Casey was attending the visiting weekend. “This place fosters exploration for areas that will fuel their passion.” Several students interviewed by The Crimson over the course of the weekend said that they were surprised at how socially adept and diverse their peers seemed. “Coming to Harvard, I felt everyone would fit into particular stereotypes,” said Luke M. Giveen...
...childrearing isn't responsible for slowing women down, what is? One answer is that men and women prioritize different aspects of their work. Female associate professors devote less time than their male counterparts do to churning out books and articles, essential fuel for promotion: women reported spending 7.7 hours a week on research and writing compared to 9.7 hours for men. This difference adds up to men spending about two more full work-weeks a year writing than women do. That can make a big difference at a time when schools' increased reliance on adjunct professors is pushing...