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DEFINITION vam-pahy-r i-lek-tron-iks n. Unused appliances, like cell-phone chargers and coffeemakers, that quietly suck up electricity when left plugged into sockets. Constant consumers, they spike electric bills and put more strain on the nation's power grid...
Even if the Ariases win, they risk becoming another symbol of Latin America's gaping chasm between a hyperwealthy élite and the abject poor. Panama and its reformist President, Martín Torrijos, may have a good business plan for the future, but the nation's near 40% poverty rate is a legacy of decades of banana-republic rule and dismal social spending. Hilda declined to speak to TIME on the record because the case is still pending, but her granddaughter Madelaine Urrutia, who sits on the board of a children's charity, insists, "We are a family with...
...alliance aims toward the integration of Venezuela into the Mercosur trade bloc and the creation of a Bank of the South to challenge the IMF. This has region-wide parallels on the ideological front in the form of teleSUR, a continental TV station to disseminate Bolivarian ideology.Simón BolÃvar, the nineteenth-century liberator that inspires “Bolivarianism,†indeed dreamt of a single Latin America where language, Iberian heritage, and a predominant religion would allow for united polity. That is a fine dream, and further integration inspired in by the European model...
...targeted recruitment trips, many of which are conducted with the University of Virginia and Princeton, colleges that also ended their early admissions programs. The Office is relying on the research of recently departed professor of economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 and professor of public policy Christopher N. Avery ’88 which analyzed financial aid and admissions data in order to provide a more refined way to target schools and regions for recruitment of students who would not otherwise think of applying to Harvard. The change was also intended to make the college admissions process simpler...
...Politics might be rock 'n' roll for nerds, but the nerds aren't supposed to be quite this nerdy. The leader of the disaffected in next year's presidential election - the Howard Dean, the Ross Perot, the Pat Buchanan - is a kindly great-grandfather and obstetrician whose passion is monetary policy. Paul, a 72-year-old hard-core libertarian Republican Congressman who is against foreign intervention, subsidies and the federal income tax, is not only drawing impressive crowds (more than 2,000 at a post-debate rally at the University of Michigan last month) but also raising tons of cash...