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...around 150, and Fowler said that the average Facebook user has about 110 friends on the site, which fits the relatively small groups humans evolved in. He and Christakis found that there is a “Three Degrees Rule”—networks are influential to point of the friends of a friend of a friend, but not very much beyond that...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Choose Your Friends Wisely | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

According to the ratings, Harvard's greenest accomplishments include a variety of renewable energy generators, a rate of only 15 percent of faculty and staff driving to work alone, and investment in renewable energy companies. Every scoop of squash served in the dhalls contributes another point toward this coveted grade as well—SEI noticed that 35 to 70 percent of the University's produce was grown locally...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang | Title: Harvard, Green Like Usual | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...brain surgeon. You have to be a professional. I did my best and I didn't kill anybody. I can't remember what the point of my answer...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Peggy Noonan's Mind, Exposed Again | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

Others, including those close to him, wonder privately if fighting climate change is less a conviction for Arias than a vehicle back to the international accolades he enjoyed a quarter century ago. They point out that his conservation kick was greatly influenced by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth., and wonder if Arias was motivated more by the message of the film, or the worldwide praise Gore received as a result of championing the cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica's President: It's Not Easy Staying Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...that involves some sort of power-sharing deal with the Taliban, the implementation of that policy won't look much like peacemaking. The Taliban is currently winning the war, and persuading it to settle for anything less than total victory may require that the insurgents are bloodied to the point that they're disabused of the belief that they can win on the battlefield. So, under the most optimistic view, troops reporting to Obama will be spilling and shedding blood in Afghanistan for years to come. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines new offensive in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Nobel Help Obama Make Peace? | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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