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...begin producing energy before 2050, but it's already generating hot air. Last week, Japan considered filing a formal protest after French officials - including President Jacques Chirac - indicated that the French site at Cadarache, 65 km north of Marseilles, had all but bagged the €10 billion deal to host ITER, which will try to mimic the sun's power by using 100 million-degree Celsius heat to create nuclear fusion. The technology is unproven on this scale, but during a nationally televised interview Chirac declared that " France is on the verge of getting ITER" over the rival site...
...precedents tend to involve either topless women or dreary, behind-the-mike camera shots. "When beloved radio personalities make the jump to TV," says IRA GLASS, the beloved-by-the-bookish host of public radio's This American Life, "it's a nightmare." Yet after rejecting two offers from broadcast networks, Glass is finally attempting a televised version of his program for Showtime. Won over, he says, by the cable channel's yearlong courtship, Glass is two-thirds finished with a pilot presentation due in June. The trickiest task, he says, is translating the radio stories into a visual medium...
...uproar in Kenya, especially when he, as Saif Saeed Shaheen, went on to beat his former teammates at the Paris athletics championships. More recently, Bernard Lagat became a U.S. citizen, again amid further protest. Now, many wonder whether these athletes should be allowed to compete for their new host nations...
Beginning with a noon doubleheader tomorrow, the Harvard baseball team will host Cornell in the best-of-three Ivy Championship Series...
...past, the Gehrig and Rolfe division champions alternated years as the host of the ICS. However, a rule change implemented this season awarded Harvard the right to host on account of its better overall Ivy record…The Big Red opened the Ivy season 1-5 before winning seven of its last nine league contests…Harvard last played in the ICS in 2003, when it lost two of three games to host Princeton. The Crimson last won the ICS in 2002, when it swept Princeton at O’Donnell Field…This will...