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Julian Treasure isn't happy with what he hears. Standing in a coffee bar in London's Soho district, he's forced to raise his voice to list the noises bouncing around the caf: the rumble of an espresso machine, the hum of a refrigerator and the tinny tones of Michael Jackson through shoddy speakers. To Treasure, it sounds like money slipping away. "The soundscape is brutal," he says. "You're not likely to stick around here for a second cup." As head of the Sound Agency, a consultancy in London, Treasure wants companies to tune in to the realization...
...list of beneficiaries is small--climbing to 15 this month--but it includes some of the most prestigious schools on the planet: Harvard, Caltech, MIT, Cambridge. And the number of research fields the institutes address is even smaller. Universities can get the $7.5 million gifts only if the funding goes to one of three areas: astrophysics, nanoscience or neuroscience. Why this particular trio? Because that's what Kavli happens to be interested in. "The way he sometimes puts it," says David Gross, a Nobel prizewinner in physics and director of the first Kavli Institute, at the University of California...
...there's one thing that the questioning of these staffers has revealed, it's that these were not the people making the decisions. As Kyle Sampson, 35, Gonzales' former chief of staff, repeatedly told the committee during the eight hours he was grilled: "I was the keeper of the list, not the one who put names on the list." Yet at the same time he claimed that he did not know exactly who it was who selected the attorneys for firing. And Sampson's own record - did practicing law for just a couple of years make him qualified...
Among the laundry list of inconveniences most of us can't abide: cold coffee, airport delays, the high price of gasoline. Our complaints about them are loud and long. But how about the dearth of clean, accessible public bathrooms in the U.S.? Surely each of us knows the desperation of being stranded without a bowl when we needed it most. And yet it's a predicament that we quietly cross our legs and accept...
...evening where we met with anyone from the club sports and sort of gave them a laundry list of what we do at the Varsity Club,” Glatz said. “I don’t think anyone has come back to us to say, ‘Gee, we really want you to help us run a golf program or start a newsletter...