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...don’t know where the genesis for the idea came from but we ended up taking our plant from PBHA sale at the beginning of the year and brought it down to the Weeks foot bridge, doused it in Jack Daniels and lit it on fire and dumped it over the edge of the bridge and hoped for the river,” said Abely. An original incantation was read facing Leverett House. The blocking group ended up in a Leverett suite overlooking the river...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Incantations, Voodoo and Revelry: A History of Appeasing the River Gods | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

Harvard University Operations Services, the office that manages Harvard’s utilities, also runs the Blackstone Steam Plant, which decreases energy consumption by providing high-pressure steam to around 200 buildings for space and water heating. This provides Harvard with increased fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, Smith said...

Author: By Emma M. Benintende, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: EPA Tags University's Energy Use As Green | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...coaches, Christensen worked on improving her approach to the bar. “I’ve always had slow approach,” Christensen said. “My coach and I have been working on running faster the whole time. If I can get a good plant, then I really get into the air well.” “She’s a very technical sound jumper,” Saretsky said. “We wanted to give her more speed on her approach…Overall, she’s taken...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Christensen Among Nation’s Top Five Once More | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...last forever. January marked a dark turning point for each of the cities. Unemployment claims started ticking upward in Jonesboro. In Cheyenne, unemployment hit 5.9%, up from 4.7% the January before, as layoffs in its warehousing and retailing industries started to filter through. Owing partly to an aluminum plant shutdown, unemployment in Charleston rose to 4.9% from 3.9% 12 months before. In Morgantown, the rate went to 3.9%, from 3.2%. Lower energy prices helped drive up the percentage of unemployed people in Casper to 4.2% from 3.4% year-over-year, and will likely have a similar effect on Bismarck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities Once Immune Now Suffering in Recession | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...cost-cutting plans have terrified Opel's 26,000 workers in Germany. Over the past month, rumors of mass layoffs and plant closures have been swirling in the German media. Union leaders are clamoring for a quick decision on the bailout. But Chancellor Angela Merkel's government wants guarantees that any cash that it doles out will not flow back to GM's embattled operations in the U.S., or go down the drain if GM goes bust. (Read a TIME story on Germany's auto industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Germany Help Bail Out GM? | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

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