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...extraterrestrial hotelier. He has long talked of pharmaceutical companies doing research--particularly cancer research--in the microgravity environment of space. That Genesis even exists stuns the man behind TransHab's design, former NASA engineer William Schneider, who visits Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas every few weeks to monitor progress on the full-size habitat, set for launch by 2010. "I went to humor him at first, but when I got there, he had built TransHab out of aluminum and had a small-scale [model] inflated," says Schneider. At full size, 45 ft. long and 22 ft. in diameter...
...Office of the Registrar, which will run a complete grade audit and e-mail each student about their outstanding graduation requirements. Professors will also receive an e-mail explaining the student’s situation and the H-1B policy. At this point, the Registrar will monitor the student’s grades and inform the Office of Career Services (OCS) once their requirements have been met. OCS will then send a letter of certification to the student’s employer. Kuanysh Y. Batyrbekov ’07, who arranged the dinner with Gross, said he felt...
...friendly computing used to mean turning off your PC at the end of a working day. That may cut electricity wastage, but what about the rest of the environmental mess that comes with using a computer? The energy-intensive process of refining and molding plastic means that your computer monitor alone is responsible for a cloud of emissions. And when you eventually toss that monitor on the scrap pile, it'll take years to break down and will likely leak a pool of chemical nasties into the ground. But computing doesn't have to cost the earth...
Earlier this month, Chicago announced that despite nationwide divestment campaigns urging universities to sell off indirect holdings in companies tied to Sudan, it would maintain its investments. Princeton, however, said last week that it had devised methods to ensure that it had divested fully from Sudan, even pledging to monitor its indirect shares...
...Philippine government counters that the new licensing rules will allow Manila to more closely monitor the domestics they export and therefore protect them from abuse. Says Rosalinda Baldoz, administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, "We are tired of hearing stories of Filipino maids being attacked in the face with a hot flat iron by her employer." Across Asia, rampant reports of imported workers suffering inhumane treatment include inadequate wages, verbal and physical assault, even rape. Last month, leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations, meeting in the Philippines, also took similar steps to regulate...