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...industry to back the atomic revival. At the same time, the price of building a plant - all that concrete and steel - has risen dramatically in recent years, while the nuclear workforce has aged and shrunk. Nuclear supporters like Moore who argue that atomic plants are much cheaper than renewables tend to forget the sky-high capital costs, not to mention the huge liability risk of an accident - the insurance industry won't cover a nuclear plant, so it's up to government to do so. Conservatives like Republican presidential candidate John McCain tend to promote nuclear power because they...
...exclusive interview conducted June 3 at the Blue House, the presidential residence, Lee told TIME that he has been trying to adapt his hard-charging leadership style to a political arena in which mandates are shifting and conditional. "Some people have laid criticism on me that I tend to not listen to other people or to the voices of the Korean public," Lee said, "that my leadership style is very one-sided and I go my own way. But I was a CEO for quite a while, and a CEO must listen to consumers and what they say. Of course...
...purposes. As Al Amana, Morocco's largest outfit, has shifted from grants to commercial funding, its average loan size has roughly tripled; smaller loans to the most desperate borrowers are costlier to service. One consequence of commercialization is that a lower percentage of loans go to women because they tend to take out smaller sums, according to a recent study by Women's World Banking...
...that Harvard students never fail. They do, and when they do, they often grow from the experience. And I don't mean to generalize—there are always outliers. But I do wish to highlight a powerful and often hidden aspect of our culture: Harvard students tend to be unhealthily obsessed with minimizing the chances they take with their future success, often to the detriment of their present happiness. Paralyzed by opportunity cost, it's impossible for them to seize an opportunity...
...specialty is ancient science, where he studies medicine and mechanics—areas that tend to escape the purview of classics professors...