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...don’t want some random antenna being put up,” said Yang Gao ’11, a Pforzheimer resident. Jokingly, he added, “It could give me brain cancer...
...climate-change negotiations can be a depressing experience - maximum rhetoric expended on minimum accomplishment. In Poznan the atmosphere seems even bleaker. For one thing, economic catastrophe has made it harder for leaders to justify cutting carbon. A recent study by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), the independent investigative arm of Congress, sharply criticized the Clean Development Mechanism, the U.N. body that oversees the Kyoto Protocol's carbon-trading practices. The GAO found that carbon offsets - whereby a company in a rich nation pays for a carbon-reducing project elsewhere in lieu of cutting emissions itself - were at best a "temporary...
...style is about sex appeal,” she said. “It’s more straightforward and women are not afraid to flaunt their bodies. Eastern style is more hidden and demure, though the message is still very direct.” A Chinese-American designer, Gao attempts to merge her two identities in her design philosophy, which in fact is centered around the Eastern proverb “Express your strengths and hide your weaknesses.” “This is the Asian way of dressing,” she said...
...from the music mixed and produced by Michael R. Polino ’11 to the posture of the student models, many of whom are new to the business. “The models are all very professional. I was so surprised,” said Angela Gao, one of the designers. She would know what “professional” looks like; a New Yorker and a recent graduate of Parsons, she has been involved with shows for DKNY and Doo-Ri Chung. But what keeps Project East running is much less glamorous: the simple hard work...
...apparent that new funding solutions are needed. Private funding has a significant potential role to play in repairing America’s aging infrastructure, as it has for years all over the globe. Public–private partnerships, or PPPs, are defined by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) as “institutional arrangement in which a private entity assumes some level of risk beyond that traditionally associated with supplying its services to a government agency.” A recent report by the GAO provides examples of PPPs for highway infrastructure in the U.S., and highlights those which involve...