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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shift to renewable energy won't happen on its own - it needs smart government policies and smart technological innovations. Solar mapping is a good example of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mapping Renewable Energy, Rooftop by Rooftop | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...they learned. They have, in effect, been babysat, kept off the streets. We gain the strongest impression of the education machinery taking a little rest before clanking onward, in the largest sense indifferent to the needs of its charges, the best efforts of its functionaries. We guess that the smart kids will come out all right finally. We also guess that none of the troubled ones will suddenly become untroubled, saved somehow from mediocrity or worse. In its appraising reserve, its avoidance of sentimentality, its insistence on the quotidian realities of the faltering educational system, The Class comes - quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class: A Year in the Blackboard Jungle | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...looking for ways to tighten their belt. "Instead of sending 10 people, they'll send 7 to a convention, for fewer days." Instead of sending managers to meet with colleagues, "they'll be spending that money on sending salespeople to meet with their clients." If those salespeople are smart, they'll haggle for freebies and upgrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels Try to Adapt to Hard Times | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...unfortunate thing about looking at top performers - besides going back to look at your own statements - is that by the time a company is on fire, the smart money is probably on the way out. As they like to say in the investing business, past performance is no guarantee of future results. All you have to do it take a look at some of last year's biggest percentage gainers to understand that. Solar-panel maker First Solar, which rose more than 700% last year, has lost more than half its value so far in 2008. Fertilizer manufacturer Mosaic, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Winners (Yes, There Were a Few) and Losers of '08 | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...have to make sure we’re ready to go and know exactly what to do when we’re on the rink,” Brine said. “More importantly, we have to play strong D-zone, man-to-man, and overall, just play smart...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Faces Big Green Road Test | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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