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...Although Britain has a strong arms and defense industry, environmentalists say a revolution in substitute fuels and renewables requires the backing of the U.S. military, whose procurement and R&D budgets dwarf those of other nations. (Last year, the U.S. Department of Defense spent $79 billion on internal R&D; the British armed services spent $4 billion.) And while the Department of Defense (DOD) has not formalized green technology into its strategic documents, it has sponsored numerous studies that call for it to wean itself off what it's dubbed "POL" - petroleum, oils and lubricants - in favor of alternative fuels...
...Love You, Man adheres to the current R-rated farce structure and strictures: it's got fart jokes, a couple of fist fights and a scene of turbo-puke of an intensity not seen since Linda Blair went all demonic in The Exorcist. Its agenda is that Peter can't be a man until he has a soul-dude. But this is essentially a comedy of social embarrassment; the laughs come at the expense of Rudd and any male who squeamishly sees some of himself in Peter. Rudd's performance is an acutely off-key symphony of lame rejoinders, wildly...
...Immediately, we were silent. A few of us started tearing up,” said Jennah R. A. Hiari ’12, referring to how she and her blocking group took the news that they’d been assigned to Pforzheimer House...
...down the barriers.” Dean was initially invited to Harvard by the Dems, but his friendship with IOP fellow Tina Flournoy led him to include an afternoon visit to her study group. He scheduled the IOP forum event soon thereafter. —Staff writer Evan T. R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...
...rise in unmarried mothers is just part of what amounts to a new baby boom; the 4.3 million births in 2007 was the highest number ever registered in the country. That's good news for Babies "R" Us and the day-care industry. But the rise in births to unmarried mothers could become a policy challenge, even for those who disagree with Quayle. Study after study has shown that babies born to unmarried mothers are at higher risk of ending up in poverty, and that the mothers themselves face educational and economic hurdles. "And in this economy, where attachment...