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Then there's all that waste from real-world stores, which need heating and lighting. Online retailers that employ nothing but warehouses have about eight times the number of sales per square foot of space used. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Internet could make 12.5% of retail space superfluous. That would save around $5 billion worth of energy every year. For everything you buy with a point and a click, the planet thanks...
...While Darling may have to wait to win election to a real-world government office before he can fill his briefcase with anything of importance, his younger brother is ahead of the game. Howard Keith Adams Darling is continuing the family tradition of attending West Point, a tradition which the elder Darling perhaps didn't follow because of a professed lack of interest in athletics. Tradition is crucial in the clan; some ancestors arrived in America via Jamestown in 1607, and before relocating to Texas, the Darlings were a "landed family" in South Carolina and Alabama. The name "Sterling Price...
...status, Carlos considers himself a sage of the streets. He has picked up some wisdom along the way as well as countless intriguing stories. Over the years, he claims to have accepted fares from Harvard notables: Neil Rudenstine, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and Stephen Jay Gould, and real-world gurus like George Will, a columnist for Newsweek. Carlos describes Rudenstine as "very humble, very down to earth," and Gates as "a real nice, fun guy, a Democrat." He recalls driving Gould to Logan airport, and having "a great conversation about creation versus evolution science...
...problem is perspective. Spend three months as a Harvard student and you've got less real-world perspective than Michael Jackson Jr. (or, as he is affectionately known around the Jackson house, "Not the Monkey"). Of course, your cocky perspective from high school wasn't right either. Only Harvard students keep the same career goal, "quarterback/poet/sorcerer/King of Illinois" from first through twelfth grade. But it changed for the worse during your first year in Cambridge...
Like Harvard's new program, CEEM seeks to bring real-world business training to an academic environment...