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...Before he agreed to take on those burdens, Lewis sent 60 BofA executives to check under Countrywide's hood - a huge commitment of inside talent for a task that other CEOs would have left to outside lawyers and accountants. The execs liked what they saw. "I kept on getting reports back from people saying they are really good at what they do," he says. "They have great technology at the front end, they have great technology in their operations, and their people are very good at selling...
...USGBC recently launched LEED-Neighborhood Development, a new rating system that evaluates how the layout of a development has an impact on the environment. Green features on individual homes will count, but so will designing a neighborhood dense enough to make walking to the office or store a simple task, not an epic journey. "The building is a piece," says Douglas Farr, a Chicago-based architect who helped design the rating system. But "it's part of a bigger system." Making the suburbs truly green will take a construction revolution every bit as sweeping as the one that created Levittown...
...climate change. “We don’t have time to screw around with this,” Kerry said. “They are avoiding this in the most shocking and inappropriate way.” Kerry was no less severe with Congress, taking it to task for its funding priorities and noting that the recent energy bill passed by the Democratic Congress would put in place fuel economy standards by 2020 that are lower than standards China will enact next year. “Our priorities are so screwed up, it’s depressing...
...Chemistry 17, “Principles of Organic Chemistry,” also relies on the collective experience of grading—the 14 TFs will gather today to grade this morning’s exam. The class boasts an enrollment of 229 undergraduates and the task is likely to take five to six hours, said Walter E. Kowtoniuk, the head...
...expert from Princeton Theological Seminary, Prof. James Charlesworth, was intrigued enough to organize a conference in Jerusalem this week, bringing together over 50 archeologists, statisticians and experts in DNA, ceramics and ancient languages, to give evidence as to whether or not the crypt of Christ had been found. Their task was complicated by the fact that since the tomb was opened in 1980, the bones of the various ossuaries had gone missing through a mishap of Israeli bureaucracy. Also gone were diagrams made by excavators that showed where each stone sarcophagus lay inside the tomb, and what the family relationships...