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...electricity. Though its output still trails hydropower production, the cost of geothermal tends to run about the same, though it can run higher depending on the discovery of resources and the size of the project. But Enel is also one of the main players in a sort of ongoing Manhattan Project for geothermal. Experts for many years have been working in Soultz-sous-Forêts, France on something called Hot-Dry Rock. This process aims to simulate natural geothermal wells by strategically fracturing parts of hot subterranean rock formations to form artificial basins where water can be injected. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steaming Forward | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

...regardless of what else they call her, no one calls Gilligan a Harvard professor anymore: the Starbucks she frequents these days is in Manhattan, not Cambridge. She left the confines of the Ed School this fall to become a full-time university professor at New York University, with the freedom to teach any class in any discipline...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Trailblazer Takes Off | 6/6/2003 | See Source »

...Conant stepped down from the presidency and was replaced by Nathan M. Pusey ’28, a public foe of McCarthy. Unlike Conant, a scientist who took part in the Manhattan Project, Pusey did not have a background in national security and did not believe professors should be fired for taking the Fifth...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller and Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: In Trying Times, Harvard Takes Safe Road | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

Judith Plaskow, a religion professor at Manhattan College who came to Radcliffe in 1986 and returned for a second stint last year, says many of the 2001-02 fellows were alarmed when they learned that their list of successors included...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is This Mission Impossible? | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

When the AIDS-related death of her mother inspired her to take her education more seriously, Murray entered the Humanities Preparatory Academy, a small high school in Lower Manhattan. While working her way through high school, Murray slept on the subway or on the street, estranged from her family...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: People in the News: Elizabeth Murray | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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