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...native state of California has been especially acute and is about to get worse. With housing values falling 40% or more and unemployment at 11.2% as of mid-April and climbing, the State has already suffered through a protracted political standoff between Democratic and Republican lawmakers to plug a $41 billion budget shortfall. The deal that was finally struck will entail many painful cuts. In March, the month after the deal was struck, 27,000 educators received lay-off notices. Moreover, the complicated deal is in large measure contingent upon approval of a series of ballot propositions that...
...Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." But four-chord, straight-ahead folk music proved, well, boring after a while, and Dylan betrayed the folk pedants by going electric--"Judas!" they cried in England--and the ideology-encrusted hard-liner Pete Seeger tried to pull the plug on Dylan's breakthrough performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival...
...best antidote to the rise of viral activity during class time would be to pull the plug on wireless internet in classes in which it is not academically necessary. This would inevitably upset many students. However, such a reaction would only prove the degree to which zoning out in class thanks to technology is ingrained in the way we spend our class time. Such paternalism may not be the answer, but certainly something has to change. After all, the lecture hall is beginning to resemble Lamont Café, without the lattes. Anita J Joseph ’12, a Crimson...
...meantime, you can make small changes to begin greening your home. You don't need solar panels or rooftop wind turbines. You just need a good caulking gun. Start by thinking of your house as a submarine, and plug the leaks in your walls, doors and windows. Be sure to insulate the attic and the basement, since up to 20% of energy costs can come from heat loss in those spaces. A home energy audit is also a good idea; energysavers.gov details how to do one yourself as well as how to go about hiring a professional. So be like...
...open technology platform Internet Protocol to send data through the system. Although using an open platform has made some experts concerned about the security of a smart grid, Lang points out that his company's software will make it easier to adapt the grid to new technologies - smart appliances, plug-in cars - that might arise down the road. "This is going to be a sophisticated network," says Lang. "It will be able to add and adapt...