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...When Petraeus took the stage, he responded to questions from Gergen and used Powerpoint slides to demonstrate various trends in the war effort...
...late as April of last year, Harris engaged in dialogue with the Undergraduate Council to brainstorm a host of options for J-term, such as offering short classes on everything from PowerPoint to metalworking. This academic year, however, we have heard little or no concrete details from the College about its vision for the new term. Even a basic outline for the term or a window into its planning process would suffice, but, with next January looming closer, Harris’s comments are the first suggestion of a new and very different plan in the works...
...most of his prepared testimony, Gore ran through an abbreviated version of his famous Inconvenient Truth PowerPoint presentation on the threat of climate change - updated with new, increasingly scary data. He pointed out that the increase in global carbon emissions over the past few years is well above previous estimates from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meaning that we are beginning to put ourselves on track for worst-case scenarios. He noted a sobering new paper published Jan. 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which indicated that even if we managed to stabilize...
...evening of stand-up comedy is held in a room furnished for the AEA's more traditional meetings: ugly carpeting, stiff conference-room chairs and a screen for PowerPoint presentations. Not exactly the ideal setting, but as an audience member remarks, "This is the Carnegie Hall for economists who are also comedians." For attendees, it's the biggest night of the conference: boisterous comic relief to end a week packed with enticingly titled seminars such as "Arbitrageur of Capital" and "Dynamics of Asset Returns and Liquidity." "Microeconomists are wrong about specific things, and macroeconomists are wrong about things in general...
...Obama senior staff members have been in contact with senior executives at all three car companies since October, the Obama aide said. The talks consist of phone calls, e-mails and meetings, and the companies have given a PowerPoint presentation on their internal financials. "We're not negotiating with the auto companies. We're not saying to them, Here's our plan," the Obama aide said. "We're just trying to listen and understand and study a range of options so that we're ready to move quickly and immediately...