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Since the program—financed through surcharges on utilities and electricity usage??was met with such overwhelming demand, Massachusetts officials are preparing a new plan that is expected to be available on Jan. 1. This successor project, dubbed Commonwealth Solar, is the preliminary phase of the clean energy initiative—championed by Gov. Deval Patrick ’78—geared toward achieving 250 megawatts of solar-generating capacity in Massachusetts...
...that’s sharply divided. The New York Times insists on “health care.” Reuters, on the other hand, is an unapologetic convert to “healthcare.” The Oxford English Dictionary—notoriously slow to respond to common usage??lists it as two words. Dictionary.com—with its modern, online perspective—says one. (A search through The Crimson’s archive reveals both...
...past five years have offered only a glimpse into the pervasiveness of steroid usage??the proverbial smoke to what may really be a raging fire. It began with the Bay Area Lab Co-operative back in 2003, and has been slowly accelerating ever since. Given the ugliness surrounding our dear Barry “Balco” Bonds’ taking of the title of all-time homerun champ it would be an understatement to say that people don’t like this whole steroid business much. But there’s no avoiding it: With guys...
...comment, Sept. 10). As a Harvard employee for close to 20 years, I see little cause for such hope. Each year since the University began computerizing, its use of electricity to power its over-abundance of computer monitors, printers and copiers—along with paper usage??has increased. During this same period student demand for more amenities appears to have no limit: libraries must be open 24 hours and serve lattes, buildings which have served satisfactorily for generations need to be updated to provide air-conditioning, and gymnasiums must have all the latest exercise gadgetry. These...
...practice is touted by advocates as a way to expedite the movement of important discoveries out of the academy and into mainstream usage??and to turn a profit for universities in the process. Tech transfer promises to bring in millions of dollars in royalties to the University and its professors—a total of nearly $20 million last year for Harvard alone...