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...more about what's wrong with America than what's right" [April 14]. Playwright David Mamet recently abandoned his lifelong allegiance to the Democratic camp, saying its worldview could be summed up thus: "that everything is always wrong." This totally negative attitude will be the Democratic Party's downfall unless it can return to a more centrist position. Joop van der Lijn, Palmerston North, New Zealand...
...alternative energy source.Their proponents predicate the justifications for coal gasification incentives on two underwhelming arguments. First, advocates point out that the technology reduces emissions of certain air pollutants such as mercury, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxide. Yet this apparent concern for environmental consequences obscures a lesser-known fact: Unless coal is replaced by significant amounts of biomass, gasification plants emit as much CO2 as traditional plants. To combat high emissions, Massachusetts’s Senate bill requires that gasification emissions match those of natural gas. What looks like a step in the right direction remains problematic: Ultimately, incentivizing the burning...
...ways to talk to students using new technology.” Despite Kaplan’s positive outlook, David C. Haley ’10, a seasoned gamer, isn’t convinced that it will make a dramatic difference. “Although this is a nice idea, unless kids want to play it of their own volition, it is the equivalent of forcing them to read a book,” Haley says. But Kaplan isn’t the first company to use video games for educational purposes. In 1998, Macmillan Digital Publishing released...
...having to live them, make them interesting for ourselves. So instead of sharing our problems over cosmopolitans—like Carrie and the girls—we share ours over molten chocolate cake at Finale. (Unless our particular problem is how to lose ten pounds before the first 70 degree day.) Instead of conversations at “the coffee shop,” ours happen in “the dining hall...
...When I started here, it was clearly stated to us, to me at least, that funding was not based on whether you were faculty—researchers can do their jobs,” he said. “Now, unless you are faculty, they’re not going to help...