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...prone to human error.' GINGER KERRICK, NASA flight director, after an astronaut lost hold of a tool bag worth nearly $100,000 during a space walk...
...Conste, a company that manages Santa Coloma's cemetery. Serret had long been interested in renewable energy, and one day, as he worked with his father in the graveyard, he realized they were standing in a potent site for it. "To produce solar energy you need a wide open space," Serret says. "and in Santa Coloma, the biggest open space is the cemetery." Indeed, the city's 124,000 inhabitants are squeezed into a bare 1.54 sq. miles (4 sq. km.) of space - and much of that land is mountainous...
...thought," says Begoña Bellete, councilwoman for environmental affairs. "A city like ours has to commit itself to being on the frontlines of the fight against climate change. And this was a great opportunity because the financing would be private. All we had to do was provide the space...
...project did not feel bound by the current Houses’ neo-Georgian architectural constraints. In their models, they make use of the most cutting-edge materials and designs. The students’ also toyed with the impact that digital social networking may have on the physical space of the dorm room. Many sought to incorporate into their designs the greater social openness nurtured by networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace. “We really live both virtually and physically in the world,” Levi said. “What would a Harvard House look...
...think.” Science, math, and English courses focus not on teaching specific material but on “approaches” and “methodologies.” On the surface, this seems to make sense. With so much information readily accessible, why waste mental space on facts like the population of Russia or the circumference of a circle? Humans have limited mental capacity. Even Sherlock Holmes had to purge his mind of random trivia occasionally to make room for more important matters. Rote memorization, long a mainstay of the classroom, is now relegated to Classics concentrators...