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...What They're Buying in Britain: A coalition of environmental activists has purchased a small plot of land earmarked for a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport and plans to sell it in several thousand chunks in a bid to snarl the proposed development. The group, which includes Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson, says the expansion would force the demolition of homes and increase pollution...
...Internet, “answering a query meant traveling to the reference desk of your local library.” Hölzle added that “the average car driven for one kilometer (0.6 miles for those in the U.S.) produces as many greenhouse gases as a thousand Google searches.”Hölzle also claimed that Google has “designed and built the most energy efficient data centers in the world.”In October, Google reported that its Power Usage Effectiveness—a measure of power efficiency?...
...difference” and added that she thought it would be nice to watch the inauguration live. The issue of inauguration-day exams has been a point of contention since Nov. 17, when the exam schedule was posted on the Registrar’s Web site. Two-thousand students have exams on Jan. 20, some of whom were planning on attending the inauguration in Washington, D.C. Jason Y. Shah ’11 and Tanuj D. Parikh ’09 created a petition to protest the administration of exams on inauguration day, with the goal of allowing all students...
...Battlestar Galactica, the Sci Fi Channel's darkly relevant reimagining of the 1970s campy space opera, the One Big Solution is us--that is, Earth. Somewhere in space, a few thousand humans have escaped near genocide by the Cylons, a race of robots of their own creation and indistinguishable from humans. The survivors are driven by the search for a planet--ours--on which a religious legend says the "13th tribe" of man long ago settled...
...humbling to know that several hundred thousand people cast their ballot to put a 27-year-old in the U.S. Congress. To have their faith in my ability to represent them and to do a good job for central Illinois means a lot. That weighs heavily on me, the responsibility to deliver for them...