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...efficiency over fuel consumption by addressing wasteful engineering in vehicles. “One hundred times the vehicle’s weight in ancient plants is very inefficiently converted to oil,” said Lovins, who attended Harvard for two years in the mid-1960s. “Seven eighths of that never gets to the wheels—it is lost in the engine idling. And only the last six percent accelerates the car and hits the brake when you stop.” According to Lovins, combining low mass and drag in cars with advanced propulsion...
...night of November 21st There was an event where we heard bad verse. Seven people onstage read some poems— Most were outrageous, none were ho-hum. It was at the Blacksmith House, beside Hi-Rise Bakery. And the poems were awful; there was no fakery. It was called the Bad Poets’ Society And this was the eighth time for such impropriety. Once there was a show shortly after 9/11, They’d decided to hold it, although the humor is irreveren’. That show, a success, was the first time Gene Doucette read...
...Public Speaking Club. The club hosted the final round of the event, with a format based on an improv game, for the first time yesterday. Over 40 people auditioned in the preliminary round, but only eight made it through to compete in the finals. Each of the contestants had seven minutes to present seven slides, some with ridiculous pictures of the imaginary business’ market, management, or competition. In his pitch, Justin Pasquariello explained why his management team was made up of finger puppets. “This way you reduce the number of managers necessary...
...fretted about whether or not the crisis would spillover into the broader economy. Yesterday, the fears were confirmed when the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared that the U.S. economy is in a recession, and has been for nearly a year. The bureau’s seven-member Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is officially charged with determining when the U.S. is in a recession, announced yesterday that the last peak in economic activity occurred in December 2007, marking that month as the start of the current recession. The committee pinpointed the month when U.S. growth dipped...
...It’s a bad game if he has more than seven turnovers,” Amaker said afterwards. “But Jeremy, as always, has been an incredible player for our program and our team. His ability to make plays for himself and for his teammates is unmatched...