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...their curriculums. When students discover that the wood beneath their feet comes from recycled wine casks or that carbon dioxide sensors in the classrooms can automatically adjust temperature by detecting how many people are inside, they're living a daily lesson in what green really means. "It becomes a standard they take with them," says Mitchell...
...discussions with an intellectual property lawyer have confirmed Crimson Reading’s position. ISBN data is similar to phone book listings, which are not protected by intellectual property law, Petersen added. Every book title has a unique ISBN number, short for “international standard book number.” The alleged new rule is just the latest hurdle for Crimsonreading.org. During a meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education last March, Petersen proposed creating a centralized database of ISBN numbers for all courses, streamlining the process for professors and cutting the costs for the Coop. The proposal...
...higher than one would expect for our current financial growth. The target for neutrality is about four percent—that’s reasonable.” Stocks surged after the Fed announcement. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 2.5 percent at 13,739.39 and the Standard & Poor’s index of 500 stocks closed up nearly 3 percent at 1,519.78. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...
...Microsystems, said, "This is a great day for European businesses and consumers." He added: "At long last, the decision opens the prospect for dynamic competition in the software industry. No more user lock-in, no more monopoly pricing." He said the ruling was a landmark that set standard for Microsoft's future conduct - and empowered the Commission to impose it on the European market if necessary...
...Pride and Prejudice”) as an entrenched canon, the English department takes a political stance: It suggests that Western English-language literature is the foundation of all English-language literature, and upholds the West’s cultural output as a standard against which all English literature should be measured...