Word: modularity
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...dollars to buy up many of the nation's plants and squeeze more juice from them. Nuclear power now supplies about 20% of total electricity in the U.S., up from just 4.5% in 1973. At the same time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given preliminary approval for three new modular, supposedly safer reactors, while simplifying the byzantine new-plant approval process. Three nuclear-generating companies have already started the process, and half the current reactors in the U.S. are applying for renewals of their soon-to-expire 40-year licenses...
BARS Put your cooler on ice. Today's outdoor kitchens boast fridges and full bars, complete with beer taps and wine caves. Home Depot's Modular unit, above...
...Schoomaker: We are developing a modular Army force that gives us much more rapidly deployable, much more capable organizations that cover a broader spectrum of the conflict. What you will have is a team of pentathletes. I want a whole basketball team of Michael Jordans who can play any position. What we must do is be able to have this pentathlete team better organized, better led, better trained, better equipped, and more strategically agile...
...There are some puzzling omissions in this exhibition. Where is Buckminster Fuller? Or the modular housing of Moshe Safdie? But there are plenty of high points, including the Monty Pythonesque drawings by Archigram, a group of British design theorists from the '60s and '70s whose fantasies on paper, such as The Walking City, have long since worked their way into the collective psyche of architecture students. An actual building with a plain debt to The Walking City was even completed last year in Toronto: Will Alsop's Ontario College of Art and Design is a massive tabletop of classrooms...
...Dominguez task force is open to adopting this “modular system” and more integrative approach in setting up these international centers, according to Buffington. While he acknowledges that HBS and SAI agreed last-minute to partner their offices in Mumbai, he says that future centers will have greater “modular” integration and will seek to unite Harvard’s presence abroad...