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...with TXU was sealed, the buyout shops called up environmentalists and, in a 17-hr. meeting at San Francisco's Mandarin Oriental Hotel, agreed to roll back carbon emissions from all TXU power plants to 1990 levels by 2020. Four days later, the company's board accepted the buyout offer, agreeing to drop controversial plans for eight of 11 new coal-fired power plants and to support a federal cap on carbon emissions...
...Schlesinger declined our offer to bet that he would not be in Cambridge on January 20,” The Crimson wrote sourly in 1961, referring to the day of Kennedy’s inauguration...
...because it is.But “Wikinomics” encourages applying this motto on a global scale, which is possible with the Internet at our disposal. And Topscott and Williams remind us that “sharing is more than playground etiquette,” because it offers such a wide variety of benefits: “lowering costs, building community, accelerating discovery, and lifting all boats in the sea.” The way the authors tell it, hundreds of companies have opened up forums and problems to the global community through the “innovative?...
...twenty-minute tours, on topics ranging from “The Artist as a Social Being” to the especially popular “Sexy Ladies: the Female Nude,” were frequently interactive. According to Chen, they were intended to offer an exchange of ideas with docents passing on knowledge and, most importantly, providing an outlet for students to “connect with new people through...
...Meanwhile, the South Asia Initiative (SAI), a faculty consortium founded in 1999 to provide a forum for South Asian scholars across disciplines, does not have the power to appoint faculty or grant degrees. Though SAI has begun to offer grants for study in South Asia, it was only able to fund less than 50 percent of summer grant proposals last year; this despite former President Lawrence H. Summers’ statement that his favorite trip of 2006 was to India: “Every American should visit the country that may be our most important ally two decades from...