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...eight-member limit for blocking groups—down from 20 under the pre-randomization regime—ensures that one’s group of friends is splintered even before being arbitrarily distributed throughout campus. The “communities” that result, twelve microcosmic Harvards with ethnic ratios comparable to the University as a whole, elevate diversity not only as a principle of social or educational justice but as a fact of quotidian life...
...several efforts to boost Iceland's role in climate-change science, including research into soil carbon sequestration and hydrogen-powered transportation. And Grimsson isn't above doing some firsthand testing. "I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I was the first person to exceed the speed limit in a hydrogen-powered car," he says. "I wanted to test its capability...
...surprise that The Netherlandshas one of the best records in the world on adaptation. The Dutch have been coping with their low-lying location for nearly 800 years. Dutch law requires that river defenses deliver so-called 1-in-1,250 protection--that is, that they limit the odds of catastrophic system failure and consequent flooding to 1 in 1,250 years. (By comparison, New Orleans' defenses offered 1-in-100-years protection...
...true measure of success for the party will be whether Congress finally passes a law to limit greenhouse emissions. That effort began in earnest in 2003, when Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman sponsored a bill that would set limits on industrial greenhouse gases and let companies that do better than required sell pollution credits to those that fail to meet targets. One credit worth of extra pollution from a dirty company is offset by one credit worth of extra cleanliness from a more environmentally conscious company, and the clean company is paid for its effort too. This is just...
...Goodling's role in the dismissals is unclear, but her name has appeared on several Justice Department emails released to Congressional investigators. The emails suggest that she was in on the planning for the firings and the attempts to limit the negative fallout. Her job as liaison between the Justice Department and the White House may put her in a good position to explain how involved President Bush and his staff were in getting rid of the eight federal prosecutors...