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Huang, an animated student who seems like he could strike up a conversation with any stranger, is ubiquitous in the Asian communities on campus. He sings in the Asian a capella group C-Sharp, directs the tutoring program Chinatown Afterschool, and helps out at events held by the Chinese Students Association (CSA), Taiwanese Cultural Society (TCS), and Asian American Association...
...companies that operate there. Meanwhile, 30-year-old pipelines that stretch like a giant cobweb over the oil fields of the North Slope, a flat expanse between the majestic Brooks Range mountains and the Arctic shore, need more and costlier maintenance than ever. The new spill puts into sharp relief the same question that has stalemated the ANWR debate since the 1980s: Can oil companies focused on their bottom line be trusted to protect Alaska's fragile environment...
...Cecil Sharp House in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The Spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes...
...Because Japanese electronics giants Sharp, Hitachi and Kyocera dominate the relatively small global market for solar cells ($6.5 billion in 2004), you'd expect that sales growth for smaller players might be hard to achieve. But industry executives say their prospects are bright, because of an opportunity that is opening up in the U.S. In January, the California legislature passed a law that earmarks $3 billion to subsidize solar-panel purchases by homeowners over the next 10 years. The goal is to add 3,000 megawatts of solar energy to the state's power grid, which is more than...
...fossilized human footprints found in Australia, but the largest collection ever found anywhere. "You just don't get this sort of archaeological signature," says Michael Westaway, executive officer of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area. "This is a story, really, for everybody." Today the prints look as sharp as if their makers had just hurried over the top of the nearest dune. "Almost as good as a footprint in wet sand," Webb says. Since the 2003 find, which was announced last December, his team has uncovered around 460 human prints crisscrossing the site like the traces of a peak-hour...