Word: short
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring four short outdoor talks each semester, consisting of lectures that are 60 seconds each, to give professors an opportunity to showcase their research. With only a minute to talk, maybe these professors will have to start speaking as fast as high school CX debaters (start...
...invest in more efficient uses of energy. Critics of taxes say that they're open to fluctuation and that certain industries can win exemptions, undermining a tax's efficacy. Opponents of cap and trade systems, meantime, level similar charges. This much is sure: while taxes might fix the short-term cost of emitting CO2, helping homes and businesses figure out how much to invest in energy saving measures, they don't guarantee a drop in emissions. Cap and trade schemes, on the other hand, set the desired emissions level first. "If our aim is to reduce emissions," says Jonathan Lash...
Adjusted for inflation, that figure falls short of the average amount raised this decade. The University’s highest-ever total of $651 million ($792 million in today’s dollars) came at the end of its last capital campaign in fiscal year...
...museums are safe from grab-and-run heists like his own at the MFA. “The only way they could prevent something like that from happening is if they had a security system—if you hit a button and the door would lock. Short of that, almost any museum in the country could be taken down in that fashion, as long as the stuff was accessible to the road.” He cites the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as one such vulnerable place...
...possibilities for diplomacy are not yet exhausted, but time is short. Tensions are also rising in the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, with Israel threatening military action against the Islamic Republic if it continues to defy Western demands. Should the regional confrontation escalate, there's little chance that Lebanon's squabbling politicians will avoid being sucked...