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Mark Bent had a bright idea. The former U.S. diplomat and oilman had spent years in Africa, and as his working career wound down, he wanted to give back. The continent has no shortage of persistent problems, but Bent tackled one that was both simple and pervasive: the lack of artificial light. Many Africans lack access to regular electricity, leaving them at the mercy of expensive battery-powered flashlights, polluting kerosene lamps - or simply in the dark. No electric light may mean that a child can't study after the sun sets, or that young girls need to spend more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Many People Does It Take to Make a New Light Bulb? | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...Faculty leaders have mixed opinions about whether the lack of meetings is indicative of a lack of activity...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Cancel Quorum Meeting | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...reserves. “We could keep people fresh, especially when we got down—we had to play a little deeper to try to get back in the game.”One of the things that kept the Crimson down the entire game was its lack of free-throw opportunities. Brown was only called for 13 total fouls, and Harvard players were able to get to the charity stripe just 10 times, sinking six of those shots. In a game where the opposing team was shooting so well, Harvard needed a boost to get past...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inconsistent Play, Defense Are Crimson’s Undoing Against Bears | 3/9/2008 | See Source »

...Dinc comes into the game and displays his (lack of) touch as he pounds it off the glass for the miss. Luckily, he gets bailed out by Travis Pinick and gets to shoot to FTs. He only manages to make one. [Yale 75, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON LIVE: Men's Hoops vs. Yale | 3/8/2008 | See Source »

...Patty Griffin and Jeff Beck to generically-epic instrumentals.A more serious flaw is Dunn’s failure to fully explore the larger implications of Barton Springs’ story. Not all of those who transplanted to Austin are as unsympathetic as the couple she shows complaining about the lack of a McDonalds or Wal-Mart nearby. The film doesn’t complicate its environmentalist stance with any substantial consideration of the motives driving people to move to areas like Austin and subsequently ruin them.But the final thirty minutes seemed slow only because the rest of the film...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Unforeseen | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

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