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...architect's hometown of Kobe, its striking curves exemplifying Ando's beautifully original approach to form. Environmental and civic responsibility were key considerations in the construction. Under-floor pipes, filled with discarded scalding water from a local power plant, are used to heat treatment rooms and spa pools. Meanwhile, special plumbing allows pool and bath water to be drained and used by emergency services when necessary - an important precaution, given the lessons of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the region in 1995. Hopefully, though, the lightly carbonated waters of Nadahama will only be used for their original purpose...
...Collins ’80, a black economics professor at Georgetown, said she thinks the best way to increase the number of black economics professors is to increase the number of black economics students. “Intervention needs to be much earlier in the pipeline to increase the pool,” she said. “The more productive way to address the broader problem is to focus on ways to increase the number of black economics graduate students instead of having universities compete for the same very small number of people in the pool...
Cory Doctorow: The objective of any industrial policy aimed at increasing the pool of work, like copyright, should be to decentralize the decision-making process about who gets to say whether or not a work gets to exist...
...Under Summers’ leadership, the University established the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, which substantially reduced tuition costs for low-income students and broadened the College’s applicant pool. Finally, it was a grant from the President’s office this past fall that will finally begin to address the problems facing social space in undergraduate life—it earmarked millions of dollars for a pub in Loker Commons, a café in Lamont, and a plethora of student group space in the Hilles Building...
...Former Statistics Department chair Donald B. Rubin said that the poll’s response rate—at just over half the pool of undergraduates asked to participate—is “not bad by current standards, but it’s not up to the standards of what would be regarded as a good federal survey,” which would aim to top 80 percent...