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...Digging into his jacket pocket, Waite presents a copy of β€œThe Charter of 1650,” the document that established the mission and governing structure of the University...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Classics Concentrators Espouse Outlandish Ideas | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

Presidential candidate Charles T. James ’09-’10 focused his responses on his mission to get students involved in service within and outside of the community...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UC Candidates Battle for Votes | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Mission Over the years, Icelandic engineers have learned which temperature enables underground liquids to power a turbine, how to manage a boiling cavern's chemistry, and how to keep power plants sustainable by "resting" boreholes to give the source time to replenish its heat. While the ongoing costs of a geothermal power plant are low - Krafla, for example, has only 15 full-time employees - the start-up technology needed to extract heat from a few miles beneath the earth's surface and convert it to electricity is not cheap. By some estimates, conducting the necessary geologic surveys and exploratory drilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Boiling Point | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...fits with Eastwood's rounding out of his familiar character in later films--challenging the audience to accept "Cleent" when he does surprising things. In Million Dollar Baby, killing was an act of mercy. Here, for Walt to put his life on the line, in a kind of suicide mission, is a final act of contrition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Essence of Clint Eastwood | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...selects entrants for its five bowl games using an algorithm that weighs two expert polls and six intricate computer rankings. Its mastermind, former Southeastern Conference commissioner Roy Kramer, had a simple mission when he unveiled the system in 1998: pinpoint a formula that would pit the nation's two top-ranked teams against each other in a winner-take-all contest. Since 1902, postseason bowl matchups had been based largely on historic rivalries and conference affiliations. Schools reaped financial windfalls, but the process failed to crown a definitive champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: The Bowl Championship Series | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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