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...Before I launch into my plan, which would scrap Hilles Library as we know it, I should first say that I am a huge fan of Hilles. Reserve readings are almost always available, an extremely talented and helpful staff is always on call, and the only time when the library sees one of its rooms get full is on Tuesday afternoons, when College administrators convene their Ad Board meetings on the penthouse floor...
...increasingly acrimonious debate over genetically engineered crops erupted the moment they made their commercial debut in the mid-1990s. European environmentalists and consumer-advocacy groups were the first to launch major protests that have since spread worldwide. Environmentalists in India have filed suit against Monsanto to prevent it from testing genetically modified cotton. In the Philippines, farmers have demonstrated against seed giants Monsanto and Dupont's field tests of Bt corn. And activists there point to Miracle Rice?a product of the Green Revolution in the '60s?as a cautionary lesson. Its wholesale adoption in Southeast Asia...
...fend off similar legislation here, U.S. manufacturers are scrambling to devise recycling programs of their own--and hoping to make a buck while they're at it. Last November, IBM launched the first nationwide program; it charges computer users a $30 shipping-and-handling fee to take even an ancient PC off their hands. Hewlett-Packard plans to launch its consumer-PC take-back program in March. Regional efforts--such as Sony's "recycling days" begun in Minnesota last fall--have sprung up from Oregon to New York...
...error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from now the visual resolution of handheld text devices should be clear enough--and the prices low enough--that one portable...
...first to make very sure there's nothing above you. So you come up to 50 or 60 feet below the surface and use your sonar to scan the area, and make a visual check using your periscope. You then go back down to 300 or 400 feet, and launch the emergency procedure. Getting back down takes about five minutes, and something could conceivably move into your path in that time. But your periscope is supposed to give you extended visibility of the area, and your sonar should be able to detect a boat going at 11 knots, as this...