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...would use X powers to evil ends and has a kung-fu cutie named Oyama (Kelly Hu) to kick start any fight. Stryker must contend with a late recruit to the coalition of the thrilling: Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), whose powers include walking through walls, vanishing in a plume of fume and reciting the 23rd Psalm in a German accent...
...continues to focus on updating the campus’ buildings with more efficient digital energy systems, Phillips says they also look forward to tackling the problem of inefficient fume hood use, which is estimated to cost the College $100,000 each year...
With the help of Director of Building Maintenance and Operations Jay M. Phillips, Lichten focuses on improving energy efficiency in FAS’s mechanical systems, including the motors of ventilation systems and fume hoods—the fresh air exchange systems in laboratories—which Phillips says, “are the highest energy consumers” at Harvard...
...Both parties, of course, are notorious for plagiarizing each other. Bill Clinton drove Republicans nuts when he'd borrow many of their conservative themes, like welfare reform. And Democrats fume when George Bush poaches from their issues, like education. But what's wrong with it? Why shouldn't a Republican borrow a Democrat's idea? Didn't they teach us in grade school civics class that compromise is key to productive government? Why can't the two parties use the same slogan? Heaven help us, it might even get them to agree of a few things...
...fact, Bush's conduct of the Afghan war has won high marks as measured and effective all over Europe. European leaders point to that when critics fume that Bush is about to go off half-cocked in Iraq to complete the job his father flubbed in the Gulf War. But lately, that reassuring example has been obscured by a blizzard of Bush words and deeds that strike many Europeans as tone-deaf or worse: lumping North Korea, Iran and Iraq in a (speechwriter-coined) "axis of evil"; the disdain for the Geneva Conventions shown in the early treatment of prisoners...