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...bill means to spend $44 million to repair the U.S. Department of Agriculture's headquarters. About $400 million will go to repairing national monuments in Washington, which are somehow considered essential to national infrastructure...
...Spend a few days prowling the packed exhibition floor of Abu Dhabi's World Future Energy Summit, and you might forget that the global economy is suffering through an existential crisis that has overshadowed just about everything else - including climate change. Booths showing off the technology of Chinese solar companies and German wind businesses buzz with visitors. Conference panels on biofuels or green design are half-empty, but that's only because attendees are busier cutting deals...
...next step for both researchers and policymakers is determining which sources of dirt - power plants, motor vehicles, other industrial polluters - make the biggest contributions to particle levels and thus should be most aggressively targeted. "In a difficult economic situation," asks Dockery, "where can we spend the dollars that would have the most benefit...
...intramural grand prize in his e-mail. "[J]ust a warning: nobody graduates if we do not win the Strauss Cup (soon to be in the display case in the dining hall) again this year," he wrote. According to Crump, who was commissioned by the Masters to spend last summer making artwork for Winthrop, Rosen and Sassanfar have made an effort to place art throughout the House, especially when it is Winthrop-centric. Rosen and Sassanfar's departure announcement follows Pforzheimer House Masters Sue and James J. McCarthy's in November. And other House Masters may soon follow suit...
...business. But if he telecommuted, he could write off a portion of the cost of his computer and other gear needed to run the largest branch of our nation's bank from home. To get the deduction, though, Geithner, on the basis of his salary, would have had to spend at least $8,000 on home office equipment. But that shouldn't be too tough. If you are the head of the New York Fed, a 73-in. high-definition television ($3,000 and up) to watch CNBC is a legitimate business expense, right...