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...efficiency. That's where dry Australia is leading the way. In northern Victoria state, the government has launched a five-year, $1.3 billion project that will overhaul the region's century-old irrigation system, using computer-controlled channels that should significantly cut down on water waste, which today can reach 30%. "It's extracting the most benefit we can from the water we have," says Murray Smith, who heads the Northern Victoria Infrastructure Renewal Project. (See pictures of Australia, the driest inhabited continent...
...uniformed. The UC and its presidential candidates should accept the fact that these students may never be coaxed into caring enough about the process to cast a ballot. However, for those who may indeed be swayed, the campaigns must use this extra time to find more creative ways to reach out to students. This might include bringing campaign events and debates down to the House-wide rather than campus-wide level, or perhaps coordinating more community-based debate watching parties. The UC leadership has touted this extra campaign time as a way to provide student groups with more time...
...touch only our relatively cushy lives inside the bubble. Layoffs hit at home—the equivalent of our financial aid. In these desperate times, financial aid is the only luxury students should never be asked to give up. Harvard has made a laudable and well-publicized effort to reach out to lower-income students, and this absolute good cannot change; especially as the markets plunge, financial aid becomes more and more crucial. Neither prospective students nor current students should ever find themselves unable to meet the asking price. Moreover, our university’s exceptional financial-aid programs have...
...designed to give students the opportunity to learn in a relaxed environment. Previous speakers have included philosophy professor Sean D. Kelly and speakers from four of the seven Mind, Brain, and Behavior tracks. “In order to create a more social and academic community, we try to reach out to diverse guest speakers,” Fan said. “We ask speakers to talk about what they’re currently interested...
...political clash is being played out through dueling documents posted on each group's website. It could rip apart the governing coalition, although Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh insists that the dispute "won't reach the breaking point." (See pictures of an Iraq where the loudest noise may now be politics...