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...Crimson took the field on Saturday afternoon for Harvard’s Ivy League home opener against Cornell, the team looked to obtain the first victory of its Ivy League season. The Crimson (3-1, 1-1 Ivy) knocked off an undefeated team for the second week in a row, cruising over the Big Red (3-1, 1-1) by a score of 38-17 in front of a crowd of 11,263.Harvard put on another solid, turnover-free showing, as it mustered 423 yards of offense while adding two interceptions and two sacks on defense. The offensive line picked...
...earlier this year, Palin missed an opportunity to help the US mainland obtain billions of cubic feet of natural gas from Alaska's Cook Inlet. Her support of an effort by major energy producers to export the fuel to more lucrative markets in Asia came just as a facility that will provide the first practical way to bring the state's natural gas to the lower 48 states was set to open on the Baja coast in Mexico...
...billion is stuck in Icelandic accounts. Nick Chard, the council's cabinet member for finance, says he and his colleagues chose its banks in line with government rules about spreading risk by placing deposits with a range of institutions. Those rules also stipulate that councils should try to obtain as high a return as possible and should always check the credit ratings of the institutions. "At the time of making the deposits [on fixed terms of between 364 days and 2 years], the ratings were good," says Chard. He stresses that the council has no immediate liquidity problems but points...
...take the time I was sent to obtain a copy of People Magazine that contained an important book review. Two Duane Reade’s and three subway stations later, I returned triumphant, with that week’s special “Brangelina” cover in hand. I was so confident in my ability to handle this simple task that I didn’t even bother to look inside the magazine. This was not treading water, or even mastering the ever-elusive cartwheel. This was easy, and I was (almost) a college graduate...
...green dream is hardly problem-free or environmentally perfect. First, if oil prices continue dropping, perhaps to last year's $60-per-bbl. mark, drivers may opt to keep their old cars, especially if the recession in the U.S. and Europe deepens and car loans get even harder to obtain. In debt and facing slumping sales, the auto industry is also competing against flush high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, which are also racing to perfect a lithion-ion car battery. What's more, the billions that the auto companies are spending in research could be squeezed during the recession...