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...said, “but I forgot.”At Leverett, the pace declined, as the competitors realized that crossing the finish line would be tougher than they had imagined.The two walked side by side to Mather. Arriving at the entrance to the concrete low-rise, DeSantis chivalrously opened the door for Tan. The two entered, together. The Mather House grille worker, Kecia Pugh, laughed when told how the products of her labor were being used. “I do think they will be sick,” she said, “but it?...
...World Bank’s Lighting Africa Competition 2008. He is a member of a team of Harvard students and alumni called Lebone Solutions—one of 16 groups to receive a $200,000 grant from the World Bank. The international competition encourages the development of low-cost technologies that could potentially provide off-grid lighting to over 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Lebone Solutions’ device, which has been in the works for eight months, is a microbial fuel cell-based lighting system that generates a current from the energy produced by metabolizing...
Still, despite the relatively low-key public response to the beatings, the situation could still change for the worse. The FBI and the local district attorney have said they are monitoring the department's internal investigation and could bring charges against the officers. Ramsey has been under pressure to revamp the department's policy on the use of violence in the face of 35 incidents in two years where police have killed civilians. Smith says the black community has its eye on Nutter - one of a new, younger, and largely untested generation of African-American leaders - and expects...
...make sense - as long as they are real and verified (which is hard to ensure). But many policy analysts fear that unlimited offsets in the fragile early years of the system would invite wholesale gaming (destroying the market's credibility) and keep the price of carbon pollution permits so low that coal plants would just keep spewing, destroying the market signal that's needed to usher in the new low-carbon economy McCain described so well in Portland...
...Republican John Warner to produce a bill that is more detailed and ambitious than the ones Lieberman and McCain worked on. With the backing of California Democrat Barbara Boxer, the fierce, deep-green chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Lieberman and Warner added provisions to protect low-income consumers and managed to get the bill voted out of committee; it is scheduled for a Senate floor debate early next month, but its chances of passage are next to nil. As G.O.P. opposition to the bill hardened - the business lobby argued that it would cripple the U.S. economy...