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...homes are overheated, equipped with boilers or heating systems that are far stronger than necessary. If a building uses about 100,000 BTU of heat, it doesn't need a system that supplies twice that - yet that's how many buildings operate. "It would be correct for about two percent of the year, and overpower you for the rest," says Trethewey. "It's like a V12 engine in a Volkswagen - it leads to wasted energy...
...rebounding in Loudonville, with Harvard posting its best defensive effort of the young season. Siena guard Allie Lindemann (4-of-8 from long range) led all scorers with 18 points, but no other Saint could find the bottom of the basket—the hosts shot just 33 percent from the field on the afternoon...
Tough Harvard defense keyed a transition offense that hadn’t been firing on all cylinders yet this season, scoring 26 points off the Saints’ 19 turnovers. In the half court, Harvard used a balanced attack to steadily build its lead, shooting 51.5 percent from the floor with a 7-of-15 mark from long range...
...that the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season might boost revenues battered in recent months by a tumbling economy. Expecting the worst, Cambridge business owners said they were pleasantly surprised at the number of shoppers on Friday. One early report suggested that national sales had increased only 3 percent from last year, and all local business owners acknowledged feeling the effects of the slowing economy. At the Adidas Store on Mass. Ave., where employees handed out coupons mimicking back-stage passes that offered passers-by the chance to win gift certificates, managers were decidedly bleak about business prospects...
...Manansang, who was born in Papua, estimates only one or two percent of 67,200 HIV/AIDS sufferers in Papua would qualify for the microchip. "The chip would send off a signal when infected blood comes into contact with non-infected blood so it would monitor the spread." Some 77% of those infected, according to 2006 government data, are indigenous Papuans, who make up about half of the province's population of 2.8 million people. "I am only trying to prevent the extinction of the Papuan people...