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...experience to give them the edge in the elimination rounds, which are collectively known as the Louis Vuitton Cup. But all was not well on dockside. Frustrated by initial losses, syndicate head Patrizio Bertelli, husband of Italian fashion designer Miuccia Prada, fired the yacht's design director, Doug Peterson, and took overall charge of design himself. But to little avail: Prada are lying sixth, making a comeback now very unlikely. Skipper Francesco de Angelis reflected: "Everything will be difficult here. We knew it would be difficult to get points." While Prada suffered, Alinghi Challenge benefited from some shrewd recruiting. Bertarelli...
Thus, Americans are in the position to accept responsibility for their schools, but they still need mediators to work out the implications of specific educational reforms. The PEPG conference implicitly acknowledges this need. As Shattuck Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson said, “The Supreme Court decision on Cleveland’s school voucher program has left many questions unanswered. This conference will do its best to supply answers to at least some of them.” The panelists promise evenhanded discussion—ushered in by a debate between a defender of school vouchers, Clint Bolick...
...this stuff, plus the lighting, heating and cooling, security, sound system, curtains and window blinds, can be run through a computer controller. George Collins of Peterson & Collins, a high-end builder in Washington, has a client who has taken it to the limit. A computer runs everything from the snowmelt system in the driveway to the temperature of the fish tank to the alerting of the homeowner that someone is in the swimming pool...
...sign is one of the first street corners to use a slick new design created for the city specially by a graphic designer, says public works commissioner Lisa Peterson...
...transport grain but secretly carried four large tanks inside its cargo hold for smuggling oil. The Navy's first mistake was to underestimate the amount of oil on board, which made the ship more likely to go down. But it also dispatched a guard crew from the U.S.S. Peterson to the Samra that had never done this kind of work before, and the men forgot to bring life preservers. Despite these shortcomings uncovered by the investigating officer, his commander decided that none of the Peterson's officers should be found negligent. "The price of national security is that our young...