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...tides, and that these should be the focus of energy planning. Nuclear advocates point out that reactors are compact and don't require damming rivers or defacing rural landscapes. For the same output, they say, a solar panel array or wind farm would need 200-500 times as much land as an average coal or nuclear plant. Also, because wind-farm and solar outputs fluctuate, they must be backed up by coal, hydro or nuclear power...
...alleged kickback scheme has led to high-level arrests this year in Marbella, Spain's jet-set and botox capital. Authorities in the Valencia region have been challenged by foreign owners and the European Commission over a 12-year-old law that allows communities to reclassify already developed land and force owners to sell. Environmentalists have been deploring the overdevelopment of the Spanish Costas for decades, but this year for the first time hoteliers have suggested a limit on new construction of holiday and second homes, which they say threatens their business. That would probably suit the Harveys, as well...
...mine represents death and a rock might be, say, nausea. That analogy failed. ("People thought they could step over the side effects," he says.) The roulette wheel best illustrated the range of outcomes. With medical care, as with that little white ball, says Hoffman, "you know that it could land anywhere...
...Faculty Council member Everett I. Mendelsohn. “It would not surprise me if during this period there were a slowdown.”Slowdown or not, Allston is poised to become Harvard’s project for the next half-century.THE SUMMERS STAMPBok initiated the purchase of land in Allston during his first Harvard presidency in the 1980s, and most of Harvard’s property there was amassed under a front company during the presidency of Neil L. Rudenstine. But the future of the new campus clearly bears the Summers stamp.From his very first speeches as president, Summers...
...change might work at the traditionally intractable Harvard. First, in 2001, rapid change was just what the presidential search committee was looking for and, seemingly, just what Harvard needed. After a decade in which the University was relatively stagnant in most respects other then its endowment figures and clandestine land-purchases in Allston, Harvard had much ground to make-up—the once-per-generation Harvard College Curricular Review and the largest physical expansion of Harvard’s in its history hung in the balance. In 2001, Harvard was rich, but hadn’t yet found...