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...Kenya's Laikipia region, located north of Nairobi near Mount Kenya, is known for its wide-open spaces, hills and climate - hot in the day and cool at night. It is home to dozens of landowners - some of whom snapped up their lots before Kenya won independence from Britain in 1963 - as well as Africa's most fabled animals: lions, leopards and elephants. This, and the fact that there's no malaria, makes Laikipia a popular destination for tourists looking to get off the beaten track. Yet the emptiness also appeals to the British army, which has been training...
...founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private think tank. Myhrvold and his staff have the idea to build a giant "garden hose to the sky" that would pump liquefied sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. Scientists know that increasing SO2 in the air deflects sunlight, which cools down the earth; when Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines exploded in 1992, for instance, the SO2 sent into the atmosphere created a brief global cooling spell. Levitt and Dubner advocate pursuing this geoengineering scheme, which could potentially avert a hotter world for pennies on the dollar, compared with the long-term work of shifting...
...often bring back alumni who have successfully navigated the industry for panel discussions,” Interim Director of the Office of Career Services Robin Mount said. “We have fabulous peer-to-peer and alumni connections...
...finance and consulting companies make a lot of noise, and many students just look for jobs into consulting or finance because their roommates or their friend is doing it,” Mount said. “We call it the Lemming Factor...
...echelon recruits Rod Odom (who committed to Arizona) and Keala King (Arizona State), Harvard coach Tommy Amaker and his staff will now focus their efforts on players more typical of an Ivy program in building upon a recruiting class that so far consists of one commit—Northfield Mount Hermon’s Matt Brown...