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...crowd rushes by and he goes back to work. "Spare some change!" He holds the paper high, waving an issue overhead. No one stops...
Southern California can be seen as a huge fire trap. If it were a building, it would fail inspection. Every year for five months virtually no rain falls. And every year from mid-September to November the weather system overhead jerks into reverse -- instead of blowing from the Pacific landward, it blows westward, from Utah to the sea. The winds superheat in the Mojave Desert. Then, in hundreds of canyons leading coastward from the mountains, they can accelerate up to 75 m.p.h. If California is lucky, the Santa Anas, as they are called, merely annoy, ushering in what author Joan...
Here at Harvard, we're reduced to taking classes about trees, watching slide shows and overhead projections. We may look longingly at the few elms left in the Yard that haven't succumbed to disease. If we're lucky enough to get into a special seminar, we may finagle a weekend trip out to the Harvard Forest in Central Mass...
...overhead issue erupted in the late 1980's when federal investigators determined that Stanford spent government funds earmarked for overhead costs inappropriately. Since...
...think the pressure from the government is tolower the overhead," said Professor of PhysicsDaniel Fisher, a council member. "It is asubstantial amount of money," so small percentagereductions can be large dollar cuts, he said...