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...Each of these groups runs a variety of programs to change the habits within its fief, many of which have been successful. Salient among these programs are green competitions—the Green Cup in the College, the Shut the Sash Competition, which pays labs to close energy-hungry fume hoods, run by the Green Labs program, the Green Skillet contest run by HUDS, and other similar programs across campus—in which groups are rewarded for reducing their environmental impact...
...Happier players. As seen at last year's U.S. Open and numerous events since, this is the best innovation in tennis since yellow balls. As well as appealing to everyone's sense of justice, viewers no longer have to watch players fume and sulk like prima donnas when a close call goes against them. Fears that Hawk-Eye would hold up play excessively have proved unfounded: it's quick, reliable and altogether satisfying...
...living in it, and that will cost a lot of money,” Levine said. On the other hand, lower energy consumption may reduce costs in the long run. The Medical School, for example, is already lowering its energy costs by $100,000 a year by cutting its fume hood exhaust, according to the EAC report. FAS administrators are taking note. The school is working with the five-year-old Harvard Green Campus Initiative to reduce emissions, according to its associate executive dean for physical resources and planning, Linda Snyder. “We’ve got great...
...debates can take on an ugly pettiness: Flanders puts more emphasis on traffic control, for example, so it has installed automatic speed cameras with an assiduity that the more relaxed Walloons haven't matched. Some Flemings fume over the fact that the resulting revenue from speeding tickets is shared with their Walloon neighbors...
...government of former President Mohammad Khatami was much more sensitive to Iranians' feelings, in particular their ripe tendency to fume when state money is spent outside Iran's borders. It underplayed the amount of cash and aid Iran pumped into Afghanistan after the removal of the Taliban. As a result, Iranians had no idea that for once, their government played a noble role in rebuilding a war-ruined neighbor. But it also saved them from resentment. Earlier this week, a front page headline in an Iranian newspaper read: "In Arab countries, they call the president Mahmoud." Iknow the president...