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...been an unconventional backyard hobby, Duboe sought to continue pursuing his newfound passion into college—a prospect that would have been nothing short of questionable a few years prior. “Going to play college lacrosse was definitely what you’d call a pipe dream when I was just two or three years [into the game],” Duboe says. “Fortunately, things worked out.”As a sophomore in college, Duboe now helps lead a new community—Harvard’s rising Division I men?...
Heavy rainfall on Saturday night caused a drainage pipe to burst in Pusey Library, resulting in water damage of many valuable holdings. The 19-person Library Collection Emergency Team promptly responded to the disaster—which harmed an array of objects, from sketches of costumes and set designs, to collections of rare manuscripts, to hand-painted canvas backdrops—and called several curators and conservators for additional support. Since Saturday’s flooding, the team has focused its attention on removing any remaining water from the collections. “We’re successfully drying everything...
...Serbia, itself, Russia capitalized literally, on the standoff over Kosovo. In Belgrade, just a week before he became Russia's President-elect, Dmitri Medvedev supervised Serbia's signing up to a prospective Russian Southern Stream natural gas pipe-line. Serbia also sold to Russia a 51% stake of Naftna Industrija Srbija (NIS), a much prized national oil company for $614 million and the promise of a further investment of $770 million. Russia plans build a major gas storage facility in Serbia, making the country a key base for Russian energy supplies to Europe. This consolidation of ties with Serbia achieves...
...scientific study mentioned in the Mental Health Letter estimated that water pipe smokers inhale the equivalent of 100 cigarettes or more during a single smoking session...
...solar power with a twist: it harnesses the heat of the sun, not just its light. Instead of directly converting sunlight into electricity with photovoltaic panels - the kind you might see on rooftops - solar thermal uses rows of specially curved parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight on a pipe full of synthetic oil. The sun's energy superheats the oil, which is then used to boil water into steam. The steam runs turbines, which generates electricity. The technology is as simple as any fossil fuel plant, and cheaper by material than the technologically complex photovoltaic panels. It can be more easily...