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...Michael Beard, a rotund, balding, 50-ish English physicist coasting on a Nobel Prize he won two decades ago. As Solar begins, Beard is in the waning days of his fifth marriage, hanging on as the chief of a government center on renewable energy, where climate change takes up less space in his mind than adultery. "Beard was not wholly skeptical about climate change," McEwan writes. "But he himself had other things to think about." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...significant run-up," says A123's Vieau. "There's a lot of business out there." Sastry echoes that view, saying many automakers rely on engine suppliers. "If the dream I and others have is realized, we'll see batteries being treated like engines," she says. Job engines, no less...
...Students who have read little or attended lecture sporadically will have a lot less to say and will not be able to produce compelling conversation,” Kaiser wrote in an e-mail...
...Blue Devils (8-3, 0-2 ACC) scored five goals in less than five minutes to open the contest, making sure the game was over before the lingering tailgaters even found a place to sit. Duke added three more goals before the first quarter ended, leaving a Harvard crowd of more than 13,000 in shock that the Blue Devils had more goals—eight—than the Crimson had shots—five—in the first quarter alone...
Duke began a stunning 8-0 scoring run less than a minute into the first quarter with Blue Devil Zach Howell putting one past Crimson rookie goalkeeper Harry Krieger with 14:13 to go. Just over a minute later, Harvard’s defense turned the ball over, and Duke’s Max Quizinari picked up a ground ball. The Blue Devils’ offense settled into its set—as it would do continually through the first quarter—undisturbed by the Crimson defense. At 12:51, Duke’s Steve Schoeffel tallied his 10th...