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Wayne Krouse has a seductive idea: dam-free hydropower. In a year, his start-up, Hydro Green Energy of Houston, plans to have a pair of turbines pumping electricity from under the Mississippi River at Hastings, Minn.--a town willing to give a new idea a try. "Everybody likes a science experiment, and this is just a big science experiment," says Tom Montgomery, Hastings' public-works director. The barge-mounted turbines will be unconventional, but Krouse's design yields twice the energy of earlier versions--and doesn't require new dams, which take years to license...
...pair are keenly aware they are bucking the long-standing baseball-and-business axiom that nice guys and girls finish last. Says Thaler: "We couldn't find one marketing book anywhere--and we combed through all of them--that had one sentence about the fact, 'Oh, and by the way, you should give a client a more comfortable seat, pick up their bags at the airport, compliment them on their ties.'" That's why the authors dismiss old think about office demeanor: "'Mean' to us is so last millennium...
...pipes, and laughed at their misfortune. When Lindsay Lohan started wearing them, however, I knew ankle boots had moved into the popular consciousness. I was frightened and consigned myself to my room so that I could silently reflect on them, cry, and make Gregorian chants. Then I purchased a pair the next day. Do I hate myself for this moment of sartorial weakness? Do I feel that it displays my mercurial and capricious nature, willing to give up my principles on a moment’s notice, yet unable to individuate myself from the consumerist herd...
...Nick A. Noyer ’09 are co-directors and producers of Harvard’s first production of the famous Broadway play “A Chorus Line”—which will run from Oct. 27-Nov. 4 at the Aggasiz Theater. The pair first chose to direct and produce a theatrical production together their freshman year, while they were performing in “Chicago.” Shields: We learned a lot from that process and we wanted to be able to change things, do whatever we wanted to do. We wanted basically...
...Harvard men’s tennis team had a pair of doubles tandems reach the quarterfinals of the Wilson/ITA Regional Championship over the weekend in Philadelphia. The Crimson’s top-ranked pair, sophomore Sasha Ermakov and junior Ashwin Kumar, defeated Sam Berrer and Nolan Greenberg of Delaware in the Round of 32 and then beat Georgetown’s Jeff Schnell and Kevin Walsh to make it to the Elite Eight. Their run stopped there, however, as Penn State’s Michael James and Adam Slagter took an 8-5 decision. Harvard’s second-ranked...