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...waste oil. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has already pledged $5,000 to the program, and the EAC has received almost $2,000 from outside donations, Tchou said. Fueled only by waste oil, the truck shuttles large objects such as furniture, computers, and scrap metal around campus. The real test will come when Cambridge enters its winter months. To continue running in the sub-zero temperatures, the vegetable oil will have to be preheated to 180 degrees just to remain in liquid form. But advocates of the project are undaunted by the impending bitter...
...well," recalls Kersti Kaljulaid, at the time an economic-policy adviser to the government and now Estonia's representative at the E.U. court of auditors. But Economics Minister Edgar Savisaar, an erstwhile hero of Estonia's independence movement and leader of one of the biggest political parties, wants to scrap the flat tax and use a more conventional progressive system that taxes the rich at higher rates than the less well-off. "Our system is too simple," he says. "We have too much inequality." Arguing that rural areas, old people and young families have lost out, he recently began calling...
...move unprecedented among the nation’s top private schools, Harvard College will scrap its early admission program next fall and put all its applicants on a single deadline, University officials said Monday...
...taken nearly a decade since TIME brought the matter to national attention to, but the Air Force this week concluded that's what its fleet of T-3 trainers really is. It made the decision to scrap the fleet altogether nine years after the Air Force grounded the planes in the wake of three fatal accidents - each of which killed a highly trained Air Force instructor pilot and a fledging Air Force pilot...
...salvage the aircraft in place." In other words, the Air Force has agreed to pay a metal-recycling company $12,000 to get rid of the airplanes that cost taxpayers $42 million, including $10 million in failed fixes, to procure. "The aircraft will be completely destroyed and the scrap metal value will be used to off set the disposal cost," the Air Force said. The job is due to be finished by September 25. After taking nine years to decide what to do with the planes, it's going to take only two weeks to turn them into scrap...