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Despite Harvard professors’ reputation for prioritizing their academic output over their teaching, a new national ranking of faculty productivity suggests that not all in Harvard’s Faculty are as prolific as otherwise presumed...
...Miller ’07 was not fazed by the results. “Some of my professors have edited the Norton Anthology and are renowned,” she said. “With some of my other professors, I’m not as aware of their output, but...they’re all really intelligent and great educators...
...mobile phone to pay for parking, buy bus tickets or check your children's school schedule. Wi-fi hot spots are ubiquitous, and the nation's most famous start-up is Skype, the Internet phone titan, which eBay acquired for $2.6 billion. That's slightly more than the annual output of the entire Estonian economy 15 years...
...region as a U.S. diplomat. "It is not a good investment environment." That is an understatement. Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahrastani has said in recent months that it will take about $20 billion to fix Iraq's equipment well enough to more than double its current output of about 2 million barrels a day, to about 4.5 million barrels in five years' time. In Iraq, that is a very long time...
...initiatives, others aren't taking chances. HSBC steered clear of trees when it successfully offset 170,000 tons of its emissions for the last quarter of 2005 through investments in renewable energy projects. "However many trees we planted around the world, we could not keep up [with global CO2 output]", says Francis Sullivan, the bank's environment adviser. HSBC looks, he says, for more efficient uses of its money, such as its investment in a wind farm in New Zealand. Tree planting, Sullivan says, "is a distraction." Many green groups agree. In a recent report, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace...