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...eager to get a little bit greener. So the 52-year-old Navy veteran bought something that might seem more at home in the Dutch countryside than in a small town in western Michigan: a personal wind turbine. The 33-ft.-high (10 m) machine, whose blades span 7 ft. (2 m) in diameter, sits next to the pole barn 100 yd. (90 m) from Morrell's home. (Turbines like Morrell's convert the energy of the wind to electricity, while old windmills are geared for mechanical power, like pulling water from a well.) On days with decent wind - which...
...Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing board—in early December. Golan will direct the Program in Graduate Education, a new initiative which aims to bring together the Medical School’s seven Ph.D programs—three of which span across different faculties. “It won’t be a new Ph.D program,” Golan said. “It will be a way with working with all the Ph.D programs and build on structures and resources that the individual programs have.” Though...
...ASCE estimates that it would take $1.6 trillion over a span of five years in order to bring the nation’s infrastructure into a state of good repair. Looking at merely one subcategory of these projects—transportation infrastructure—the Department of Transportation estimates that in order to simply maintain current highway and bridge conditions, it will cost $78.7 billion per year. Unfortunately, in reporting on the current state of US infrastructure, the ASCE gave it a ‘D,’ thereby indicating that simply maintaining it will not be sufficient...
...note learning and playing from staff and understanding these visual symbols that these musicians have to do translate into other visual tasks.” The participants were recruited from public and music schools in the Boston area. They participated in three to four six-hour tests in the span of either three or four weeks. This investigation is a part of a larger, longitudinal study, funded by the National Science Foundation, that began about five years ago, to test the abilities of musical and non-musical children as they progressed from five to nine years old. The researchers said...
...quickest and making their personnel available to Obama advisers. More than 100 interim security clearances have already been granted to Obama aides. "If a crisis hits on Jan. 21, they're the ones who are going to have to deal with it," Bolten said in an interview with C-SPAN. "We need to make sure that they're as well prepared as possible...