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Strong is very aware that solar can increase the cost of a house about 15%. One way to push down cost is through economies of scale, which is why he's serving as consultant for the Sonoma Mountain Village Project, planned by California developer Codding Enterprises and scheduled for groundbreaking late next year. "For the first time," explains Strong, "a developer has set course to create an entire town built according to principles of sustainability while keeping it competitively priced." Located 45 minutes north of San Francisco, the project is an entire community of environmentally conscious--and solar powered--apartments...
...Secretary of Education, Margaret Spelling, is continuing with her push, backed by the bipartisan Commission on the Future of Education, to require colleges to evaluate how much students learn in college and publish the results of these tests in the public domain...
...growth of students and the denial of federal funds to colleges that refused to measure what students learn and publicly release the results. Now, according to a recent report by the Boston Globe, the Department of Education is working with accrediting agencies to devise new accreditation rules that would push colleges to produce evidence proving that they are educating their students to a certain standard that could go into effect as early...
...operated on a very tight budget and schedule, not that such constraints hurt the mentality on the set. “I really enjoyed the fact that we had very little money making it,” says Costanzo. “With movies like that, you have to push yourself. It forced us to get creative with many different things.” It certainly encouraged people to improvise. Shot in only 19 days, many scenes had to adjust to accommodate last-minute changes. One of these improvisational scenes ended up being one of Costanzo and Song?...
...will not pass up the opportunity to continue his football career in any capacity. NFL Europe sits atop his list of potential employment.FANTASTIC FOURThere has been less speculation about the other four draft hopefuls, although each has spent the last months in intense preparation after deciding to make the push to go pro.“We all have our agents, they’re all doing their thing to get us into a camp at least, to try and make a camp,” Farbotko says. “Everyone’s really excited. At first...