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Today Biddle's dream is finally taking shape--a mere 11 years after launch. MBA Polymers Inc. is the world's most advanced recycler of plastics used in durable goods. MBA raised $30 million to develop its patented technology for extracting and recycling plastic from trashed computers, printers, mobile phones, TVs, VCRs, fax machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and other forms of e-waste. Biddle claims he can recycle "anything with a cord" and then some...
...this age upon what exactly constitutes wisdom, that sense of the better kind of life to be led. Nevertheless, most of us would still agree that wisdom is equally if not more valuable than mere knowledge of systematized fact and empirically-verified truth. The very first sentence of the Report of the Committee on General Education appears to concur, noting that “a responsible education must help students develop their capacities for reasoning and for responsible judgment.” Though espousing these ideals, the report nevertheless fails to preserve perhaps the Core’s greatest virtue?...
Treating the candidate’s answers as mere interludes to their next opportunity to speak, Banerji and Lee could perhaps be forgiven if somewhere in the midst of the circus, they had asked illuminating questions. Instead, they welcomed us to what they dubbed “the no-bullshit zone” by asking Gadgil, “Why do you want to be vice-president?” Unsatisfied with the response elicited by Banerji, Lee shot forth subsequently, “Why are you playing second-fiddle?” As if Gadgil didn?...
...taking the buildings apart and selling the spoils. The antique shops of Chettinad's biggest town, Karaikudi, are full of them?and they are pitifully cheap. Intricate, 200-year-old teak doors?depicting a wonderful miscellany of Hindu Gods, Victorian ladies and scenes from the Raj?fetch a mere...
...lamp once in each period: Deena Caplette commenced the scoring with a power-play strike in the first, Jenna Spring notched a goal early in the second, and freshman Sarah Tittman iced it with an empty-netter in the third. The lone Harvard response came with a mere 53 seconds left in the game, when junior Jennifer Sifers finally put one past an exhausted Love and prevented the potential second shutout in the history of the rivalry.“Obviously we’re competitive and we’d rather win than lose...