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...recent article written about me in The Crimson (“The Politics of Condoms,” column, April 16), the impression was given that the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies decided to end the AIDS Prevention Research Project, of which I am director, in response to my recent, controversial comments which questioned condoms as the panacea for AIDS in Africa. That is not the case. Our project is not being continued, but it has been extended beyond its original end-date on a no-cost extension basis...
...bright startup Silver Spring Networks - the Miami smart-grid program will be by far the largest in the U.S. If it succeeds, FPL plans to invest another $500 million to roll out the service to all of its 4.5 million customers. "This is not a science-fair project," says Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, which will be providing smart meters for the initiative. "This is commercial technology that shows the smart grid is real." (Read "How Vulnerable Is the Power Grid...
...fact, the initiative might never have gotten off the ground without a lot of help from Washington. Half the $200 million price tag of the first phase of the project will come from federal stimulus spending, and there's more to come. Along with the $3.3 billion in grant money set aside by the Department of Energy for smart-grid tech, another $615 million is set to be spent on projects for energy storage and monitoring. To Washington, building the smart grid is about more than energy - it's about creating jobs, an investment that will stimulate the economy today...
Linfield and Fothergill are helming Disneynature's next project, Big Cats, which follows three feline mothers - a lioness, a leopard and a cheetah - on the African plains. After that, the company plans to release Naked Beauty, which is about flowers and pollination...
...willing to unthinkingly accept orders from above after the relative freedom they enjoyed while working in cities. "The people who have spent a long time in the cities are going to have a heightened sense of participation," says Yawei Liu of the Atlanta-based Carter Center's China Elections Project, which has spent years monitoring the evolution of the village elections. It also will give returnees a greater chance to participate themselves. "If you go back you are more likely to want to be a player," says Liu. These elections provide a means of being...