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...hits collection of Denmark's successful energy policies. The island features district heating plants fired by waste biomass such as straw. The plants provide heat to homes in lieu of more polluting oil-burning furnaces. When the sun is shining - which, admittedly, is not often - solar thermal panels provide hot water. Wind power is everywhere - on land, where towering turbines shade cows on a dairy farm, and offshore, where 10 turbines greet the incoming ferries like a row of sentinels. Many of the turbines are owned collectively by resident associations, with members chipping in to buy a slice of wind...
...says Song. "Adventure-travel packages and risky sports such as bungee jumping might want to use harder names." When a product like the Scirocco folds, it might have been done in not just by the nonintuitive pronunciation of the name (shi-rock-o), but also by its definiton: a hot desert wind. That's a double-dose of danger that could simply be too much for safety-conscious consumers. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...best and brightest of our Econ professors left and right, and the University's powers-that-be have whittled the department's faculty hires down to one, the loneliest number. Rumor has it that the position for an assistant professor has been offered to a male Economics hot shot who recently gave a talk on campus...
...think of taking submissions from guys? Dubelman: We originally tried to make it more mixed, but all the men's stories that came in were the same: "She was so hot, but she was crazy." There wasn't a whole lot of depth to that. Davilman: Those were their submissions. They were like, "Here is what was wrong with her: this and this and this and this." And you get to the end and there's still no acceptance of responsibility or any self-awareness...
...Princeton was really hot,” said co-captain Emily Tay, who initiated the second half comeback with a steady stream of points and dishes. “They were confident. They caught us off guard and we were back on our heels...