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...because he was on duty,” Haut said. This was the first Game at Yale since Connecticut criminalized the possession of alcohol on private property by those under 21. Yale doubled its security detail from the 2005 Game and increased the number of on-site toilets tenfold, according to a widely forwarded e-mail sent by Yale sophomore Kyle Briscoe, a member of the Calhoun College Council. In addition, Yale limited the music to one official DJ, located in the Yale tailgate area. Ryan M. Travia, Harvard’s director of alcohol and other drug services, wrote...
...need to create new forms of transportation fuels as well as reduce the quantity of goods and people moved by cars and large trucks. If a high percentage of products now transported by large trucks were shifted to the global rail system, an efficiency savings of three- to tenfold could be realized. If those goods could be shipped over water rather than rail, even greater efficiencies would be realized. While such changes will take time, they have to succeed...
...have averaged $17 billion. They'll be lower this year because commodity prices are so high. But owners of eligible farmland will still get direct payments regardless of how much their farms earn or whether their farms are still farmed. And even though crop-insurance subsidies have increased nearly tenfold, farmers will still receive disaster aid if things go badly, no matter how often that happens. More than 21,000 farmers have cashed at least 11 disaster checks each in the past 21 years, at a cost of $2.5 billion...
...Even with the recent switch to Intel processors (the “brain” of the computer for the less technically inclined), Macs lag far behind their Windows or Linux counterparts in terms of simple power. Standardized computer graphics tests have shown that the Mac Pro is outperformed tenfold by equivalently priced Windows machines...
...diverted flights. We're talking 136,000 flights to look at." Castelveter admitted that with new reporting procedures, the BTS data on flight delays would increase. But he stressed the importance of keeping it all in perspective. "Even if the numbers [of reported delays] double, quadruple or increase tenfold, relative to the 7.2 million departures each year in the United States, the numbers would still be a decimal," he says. But that decimal represents a lot of unhappy airline travelers...