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Further budget cuts loom at FAS, which is still scrambling to close the $143 million deficit that remains after the cuts. Harvard College Library, which runs the popular Lamont, Cabot Science, and Widener Libraries, cut over 20 staffers and restricted circulation at its Fung Library...
...Finally, the next national energy bill should strongly discourage the building of new coal-fired power plants, even those that include carbon capture and sequestration. Until all fly ash is recycled and/or safely disposed of, the danger of polluted groundwater and sludge spills will still loom large. New coal plants will only serve to exacerbate a serious and unsolved problem. Besides, solar, wind, and nuclear energy do not emit greenhouse gases, as coal currently does...
Tours are more readily available at the 127-year-old Royal Courts of Justice, which loom over the Strand. They're home to the High Courts and the Court of Appeal, and film crews and protesters frequently hang around the Gothic entrance. Tours can be arranged by calling...
...out—me, cowering in the corner like a nun? Sister Winnie of the Heartless and Frumpy?Then I realized what I could do for the rest of my life—open a dress shop for lasses in mourning—and call it, what, The Gloomy Loom of Doom?“And that’s why my embroidered pigs are so rotten!” I heard blare from behind me.I froze at her voice! Where could I hide? What was even huge enough to hide me? A statue? A cross? An ironclad? There...
...someone who is expected to meet with Hillary Clinton during her first trip to Asia as U.S. Secretary of State, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso appears to be a host not yet ready for the party. Japan's economy continues to shrivel, the government remains gridlocked as elections loom, and public approval for Aso's administration is plunging. Even influential former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is criticizing Aso's performance, though both are members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party...