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...Sanpaolo IMI and Banca Intesa to give Italy its first major European banking player. But by the second week of September the sunny summer spirit was fading. Telecom's announcement that it was splitting its fixed-line and mobile phone sectors - which could result in the sale of the latter - left investors cold. Two days later, a visibly incensed Prodi declared to a swarm of television cameras that Tronchetti Provera had kept him out of the loop about any planned sell-offs. The would-be statesman of Lebanon sounded like he could barely run his own country. But the center...
...sent ripples through the world of elite legal academia because of Kagan’s reliance on “poaching,” or hiring full-time professors from other institutions. Former Dean Robert C. Clark, whom Kagan succeeded in 2003, shied away from the practice during the latter part of his 14 years of service. Kagan spoke yesterday of the need to further decrease the faculty-student ratio by recruiting more professors. Law School spokesman Michael A. Armini added yesterday that the Law School’s aggressive hiring is also due to the large number of faculty...
...real problem is that politicians and automobile manufacturers (and, in turn, the public) tend to conflate two separate problems: finding a safe, steady supply of energy, and finding away to store that energy in a car. Gasoline easily solves the latter problem because it is so easy to transport compared to, say, a lighter-than-air gas like hydrogen. Hydrogen, which is at best a troublesome way to store energy, is being touted as an energy source when the actual source of hydrogen is a fossil fuel. In the end, hydrogen is just a convenient way for handling the energy...
...road, generating the bulk of our electricity from something other than coal—is two-fold. We need a renewable energy source that doesn’t emit greenhouse gases. And we need a way of storing that energy in a form that can be driven around. The latter has few viable solutions: despite intense research, battery technology is still relatively poor, and hydrogen has all the disadvantages already discussed. For the former, we have lots of promising, but highly underdeveloped, ideas, from massive oceanic windmill farms to gasoline-oozing bioengineered algae to corn-derived ethanol (which itself presents...
...Traditionally, key papal discourses would wind their way through several layers of checks and input from various offices in the Roman Curia - and particularly in the latter years of the previous papacy, bureaucrats actually wrote the speeches themselves. But the effective No. 2 man in the Curia bureaucracy, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, had been a lame duck over the last two months after Benedict announced his replacement as Secretary of State would begin this fall (Sep. 15, in fact, the day after the Pope's return from Germany). Insiders say the 78-year-old Italian hadn't had an effective working...