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...happen for alternatives. And the sheer size of the problem facing the global energy industry demands that no solution can be dismissed out of hand. On June 6 the International Energy Agency released a study calling for $45 trillion in energy investments between now and 2050, including both a vast expansion in wind power and the construction of some 1,400 new nuclear plants. The conservatives are wrong to argue that nuclear deserves special treatment - it should live and die on the private market like any other technology - but we may not be done with the atom...
...wide, it bursts from a wall at one end of the gallery. A curving motorized blade rides slowly back and forth across its surface as though carving it, sending off splatters of wax along its circumference like solar flares. Wagnerian, mythic and muddy, it's something vast and strange being born, like a planet being fashioned out of primal elements and impersonal forces. Though in some ways this world is putty too, this time there's nothing silly about...
...talking about [in our] study is the special visit for [general] preventive care. Physicians say, "The preventive exam is the only time I can really devote to focusing on preventive care." But we found that 80% of preventive services are provided at other types of visits. The vast majority of patients who come in for a physical exam have already seen their physician for some other reason in the previous 12 months. It isn't as if this is the only time that they have contact with their physician...
Finally, there has been a vast increase of bureaucracy to cope with all the tasks–connections with the outside world, and management (as well as production) of a Himalayas of paper—both in the form of professional bureaucrats and in that of academics turned, willy-nilly, into part- or full-time administrators. The only law of political “science” I recognize as such is: the greater the bureaucracy, the less efficient it tends to become...
...Harvard’s faculty members have consistently failed to hold up their end of the bargain. The vast majority can’t be bothered to attend Faculty meetings, so much so that when administrators attempted to lower the level of attendance required for quorum earlier this year, they were prevented from doing so because they lacked the quorum necessary to change the rules...