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...category most unlike any in the current Core addresses “what it means to be a human being”—but it has yet to be defined beyond the broadest strokes. “There are only so many ways to slice the salami,” History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 said in a phone interview after yesterday’s meeting. “There’s disciplinary approaches and there’s subject matter. Any curriculum is going to have to be some combination...
...India wants to build nuclear reactors around the country to power its booming economy, while U.S. nuclear industry giants are rubbing their hands in anticipation of getting a slice of the $100 billion some predict India will spend on nuclear technology in the next decade. So what's not to love about this win-win proposition...
Notes on a Scandal is melodrama trying to pass itself off as a slice of realistic life. But director Richard Eyre and screenwriter Patrick Marber keep forcing us past disbelief and into the perverse pleasures of nastiness. If nothing else, their film is the perfect antidote to all those warm, forgiving schoolboy dramas we've endured through the years. This corn is not green; it is rotten down to the last kernel...
...possibility for creative ways to violate the rules. Any candidate can, for instance, convince someone sufficiently separated from the campaign to create anonymous e-mail aliases from which to send campaign literature. Moreover, e-mail violations, unlike postering violations, are most likely to go unreported. Only the smallest slice of campus would notice a campaign violation in their inbox when they...
...technology isn't cheap: installing the ClimateWell system costs roughly $25,000 in Spain, $10,000 more than standard combined heating and cooling systems. But going solar would slice $130 off the monthly energy bill of a standard home, says Per Olofsson, CEO of ClimateWell. And with electricity and gas prices rocketing, users would be "much less vulnerable to fluctuations in the future." Moreover, without leaning heavily on traditional sources of fuel (the pumps forcing the salt and water around the machine are electric but use only 100 watts), the average home could reduce carbon dioxide output by 13 tons...