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...much of your own home is furnished with Ikea products? About 50 percent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ikea CEO Anders Dahlvig on Surviving a Bad Economy | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...state agency that promotes development of green energy. The grants, which will be awarded next May, allot a minimum of $100,000 for renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in municipal buildings that serve low income residents. The Peabody school qualifies for the program because more than 50 percent of its students qualify for free and reduced lunch, Healy said at the meeting. The city will submit a grant application detailing its plan to install photovoltaic solar panels at the school, which serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, later this week. “With any luck...some kids...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Seeks Clean Energy Grant | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...team so we don’t rely so heavily on her,” Finelli said. “She was one of our only weapons on the boards this weekend.”Harvard turned on the jets after halftime, shooting a blistering 46 percent from the floor in the second frame en route to 44 points and the win. A layup from senior forward Katie Rollins tied things up at 36 with just over 16 to play, and co-captain Emily Tay’s jumper at the 8:47 mark gave the Crimson a lead...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Half Struggles Lead to Split | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...Peter Anderson, the school's director, has made the same observation. The townhouses on the blocks alongside the school sell for up to $3.5 million, but he knows the children in those homes won't be coming to his school, where 96 percent of the students are black, and more than 70 percent qualify for reduced or free lunch programs. According to Anderson, some of the students live in homeless shelters, and about half are raised in the projects, mostly by single parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lacrosse 110th Street | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...Nevermind that they'd never seen a lacrosse game, much less played in one; Anderson believes in giving students a lacrosse stick and the chance to play their way to a better education. "Ideally, I want to see about 60 percent of the kids who started with us at go on to boarding schools or private schools," says Anderson. Enter Korn's father, Rick, a former player who helped coach his own son to the Division-I level; Bob Turco, a Harlem-born lacrosse coaching legend who played his way to Washington and Lee University in the '70s; and Ross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lacrosse 110th Street | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

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