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...global warming cuts into the ice cap near the North Pole, the Green Campus Initiative is urging students and staffers to cut energy usage in the North Yard. The initiative last month kicked off the first season of an annual energy competition in conjunction with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office of Physical Resources. Over the next six months, the Initiative will be keeping track of the energy consumption of 11 different buildings, including some of the biggest energy guzzlers on campus, like the Science Center and the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Lab. Each month of the competition will focus...
...telephone pole-sized commercial rocket that launched Monday from New Mexico had a lot more riding on it than just the high school experiments and cremated remains that were to be hurtled into space for paying customers. UP Aerospace of Connecticut heralded the maiden launch of its SpaceLoft XL rocket as the beginning of a new era of affordable public access to space...
...amateur production values--it was created by a pair of industrious twentysomethings using a laptop, pizza money and footage scavenged from the Internet--Loose Change is a compelling experience. Take the section about the attack on the Pentagon. As the film points out--and this is a tent-pole issue among 9/11 conspiracists--the crash site doesn't look right. There's not enough damage. The hole smashed in the Pentagon's outer wall was 75 ft. wide, but a Boeing 757 has a 124-ft. wingspan. Why wasn't the hole wider? Why does it look so neat...
...Netherlands and Australia are being designed to see them. The last, known as the Mileura Widefield Array, is considered the most promising because its 500 separate antennas will be located on a remote cattle station in western Australia, far from any interference from earthly radio broadcasts. "The South Pole would be good too," says Jacqueline Hewitt, director of the Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at M.I.T., which is a partner in the project, "but this is a bit more accessible. We'll need to cut some roads, though...
...with copper prices at a nearly two-decade high, the criminals plundering anything and everything they can get their hands on are even risking their lives. Larry Dory, 45, of Dallas was killed July 14 while trying to strip live electrical wire off a utility pole. In additon to the 240 to 460 volts in air conditioners, potential dangers include the inhalation of Freon, a refrigerant illegal to release into the atmosphere. "That's a crime in and of itself with the EPA," said J. D. Points, vice president of Dalco...