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That's why experiments now going on in laboratories around the world are so important. At a research center outside Stuttgart, Germany, engineers at DaimlerChrysler have created a high-performance car whose tail pipe emits nothing but water vapor. In a giant wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, engineers are set to analyze air turbulence in order to make superefficient wind-power turbines. In Japan scientists are perfecting paper-thin solar cells that will be cheap to produce and could turn every house into its own electricity supplier. These ventures, along with many others, are beginning...
Last night's hearing assessed the impact of only the Knafel South building. The center in its entirety is slated to replace both the University Information Services Building and Coolidge Hall, and would cross under Cambridge Street with an underground tunnel...
...light of the latest local catastrophe, the mismanagement of the Central Artery Tunnel project (a.k.a. "The Big Dig"), it's nice to see that private citizens are taking it upon themselves to help serve the community at large. In this era of expanding government programs to levels that would make Thomas Jefferson cry, some prominent locals are doing great things without government involvement. Former 8th district congressman Joe Kennedy founded a non-profit organization called "Citizen's Energy." The non-profit corporation uses entrepreneurial revenue to provide heating and oil to low-income families at up to 40 percent below...
...worry, said Susan Greenberg, project director for a reference called Peterson's Summer Opportunities for Kids and Teenagers: "There are thousands of choices out there, so focusing on just one is really tunnel vision." One of her favorites, Campus Kids, operates two sleep-away camps in New Jersey and Connecticut from Monday to Friday, so campers can spend weekends at home. It sounded perfect for a mom with separation anxiety, but they had a waiting list for 10-year-old girls...
...entire South Vietnamese countryside erupted with the Communist offensive and when, back in the States, you could see the war turning 180 degrees and becoming, suddenly, a disaster in the minds of the men who had made and supported American policy. The light at the end of the tunnel went...