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Talk about back to the future: Coal, the miracle fossil fuel that jumpstarted the industrial age, but has been viewed in recent decades as backwards and dirty, is hot once again. Technology and economics may be aligning to make the black rock more useful and economically efficient than ever. And...
In place of a cave, Energetech's four-story-high floating power plant has an open-based, dome-roofed chamber with a narrow opening at the top. As the waves rise and fall inside the chamber, compressed air is forced in and out of the opening, past a turbine that...
Ah, the high-rolling life of Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw. Presiding over a packed Sanders Theatre of freshmen hanging on his every word, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic advisors strikes fear in the hearts of men. A lone sophomore among the �...
A Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor and a colleague from George Washington University Medical Center won a contract last Thursday to study ways of measuring the spread of health information technology (IT). The researchers, HMS’ Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy David Blumenthal ?...
Historically, rankings have been, for the most part, a force for good. Before the first U.S. News rankings in 1983, schools did not systematically collect reliable data like selectivity and graduation rates, and those that did refused to make them public. By providing more information to parents, applicants, counselors, and...