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...College said it would reconsider H Bomb’s status as a recognized campus publication because of concerns that it would include pornographic content. In the end, the College allowed H Bomb to be published—in making the decision, administrators cited, among other things, the prospect of a “slippery slope”—and the Undergraduate Council allocated $2,000 to the magazine...
...building magnetic levitation wind turbines claim they can operate in winds as slow as 3 mph and produce one gigawatt of power, with much greater efficiency than a typical horizontal-axis turbine. Best of all, Maglev Wind Turbine of Sierra Vista, AZ promises a one year return on investment.The prospect of a single wind tower generating far more energy than an entire wind farm, which many consider aesthetically unappealing, means that magnetic levitation turbines could overcome an important objection that has historically prevented the expansion of wind energy in America.Of the many negative-cost investments highlighted in McKinsey?...
...would have quickly come to the realization that it was the same road, wherever he went. This brings us to the question of travel, or the “myth of mobility,” as Fox and Brouws would have it: the alluring prospect of mobility the American Dream promotes is not necessarily upward mobility. The act of traveling does not guarantee something for the better. We romanticize the road, and yet increasingly, it holds only deindustrialized areas and highways that bypass the city. “If Americans now move almost every five years and seem to have...
...just the prospect of riling trade partners that is encouraging SWFs to curb high-profile foreign investments. China's fledgling SWF, China Investment Corp. (CIC), earlier this year invested to much fanfare in the Blackstone Group, the big New York private-equity firm, right before Blackstone went public. But Blackstone's share price has sunk 35% below its June 2007 listing price of $31, costing CIC more than $1 billion. The pratfall appears to have prompted CIC to rein in its ambitions. Instead of splashy investments in the U.S. and Europe, the fund is now looking closer to home...
...weekend of non-league action against No. 10 UConn (11-3-1, 4-2-1 Hockey East) at Bright Hockey Arena tonight at 7 p.m. and Providence (6-6-2, 4-2-1) Saturday night in Providence, R.I.But what most Crimson skaters can taste right now is not the prospect of a No. 1 ranking, but rather, a bitter loss to the Huskies suffered last year on the heels of an eight game winning streak.Unranked UConn stunned then fourth-ranked Harvard in a 3-2 win, with the game-winning goal coming with just 3:14 left to play...