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...shrink the country’s carbon footprint would involve fundamental adjustments in how we lead our lives. So these conscientious entrepreneurs took it upon themselves to deliver a quantum leap forward. Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org promised to produce enough energy to power a city the size of San Francisco, one gigawatt, in the coming years, according to the New York Times. They have teamed with two firms to develop solar energy based on heat generation—which has the potential for greater energy production than photovoltaic cells—and to harvest the abundant energy...
...underscore the significance of artistic study. The proposal is particularly fitting in the context of University President Drew G. Faust’s much-publicized initiative to promote the arts on campus. And the Ph.D. program will require almost no new funds: Given the program’s small size and the availability of resources, neither a dramatically expanded budget nor new hiring will be necessary to get the program off the ground...
...numerous flying objects that typically pass over Harvard’s athletic fields, none come close in size or scale to what took off for its maiden voyage on Saturday morning: a bright yellow helicopter. The flight—one of a series that took groups of three passengers into Boston’s airspace—was the first ride hosted by the Harvard College Aviation Club, which received official student group status this fall. “I’d seen aerial photos, but it was incredible to see it myself...
...grew even faster than YWAM after Haggard founded it in 1984. It too, was vastly creative, helping to define the modern megachurch and experimenting, among other things, with a facility that Haggard hoped would become the NORAD for "prayer war," a Charismatic practice taken up against demons. Despite its size, the church was keyed to the magnetism of one man, Haggard, and after his departure in shame, the church limped along without a pastor until Boyd, a Texas minister, took over...
...Andrew Pusar cut baseline for easy layup after easy layup—that was Gansey’s favorite move. Or to see Drew Housman and Jeremy Lin confidently work the ball around the Wolverines’ zone D waiting for the open look.Thanks to Amaker, Beilein had the size and speed, the outright skill, at his disposal to beat Harvard. But he didn’t exploit that fully because he’s trying to teach a system to a very young Michigan squad that he thinks will work in the long term. And he?...