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...Harvard, “every tub is on its own bottom,” or so the old saying goes. This means that each faculty—or “tub”—is largely independent of the central administration, setting its own policies, granting its own degrees, and, most importantly, setting its own budget. The power of the purse is largely invested in one person and one person alone: the dean of the Faculty...
This would not be all that bad for undergraduates if Harvard College was its own tub and the dean of the College reported directly to the president, as is the case at nearly every other university in the country. At Harvard, however, the College is fully under the purview of the FAS dean, who controls every aspect of the College’s budget and lords over and selects the relatively weak dean of the College...
...hotel boasts magnificent views across the mountains, down to the Málaga coast and, on clear days, as far as Gibraltar and even Morocco (hence the name). Each of the nine bedrooms is different and all are romantic, though not luxurious. There's a pool and a hot tub. And a cool restaurant with a shaded terrace...
...waves. Just after its co-founders conceived the start-up's objective seven years ago--to solve the problem of large-scale, global data transmission on mobile devices--a eucalyptus branch fell outside Phillip Alvelda's Oakland Hills home, where the three sat brainstorming. The tree smashed his hot tub. Alvelda, a physicist, can probably explain the energy wave given off. But he could not necessarily say what triggered him and Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison to agree that day to combine their expertise in technology, marketing and project management for a start-up, launched in 2003, that now rivals...
...house of the future with sleek lines and magically appearing appliances capable of performing the most onerous of household tasks with just the simple touch of a button or a voice command. And while there still may not be a way to get out of actually scrubbing your tub, smart-home technology is giving the homeowner a level of automation futuristic enough to make George Jetson envious. Technology research firm InStat/MDR predicts the global market will grow from its current level of $1.3 billion to nearly $10 billion by 2010. A recent study by the Z-Wave Alliance found...