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Roger Lowenstein on former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan: "Greenspan's was a Rousseauean vision of markets as untainted social organisms--evolved, as it were, from a state of nature. (It overlooked the obvious point that markets were also human constructs--made...
...coal-fired power plants and switching to straw-based and other renewable fuels. "We're taking the big steps now," says Eldrup. "This is different from politicians who make big promises to do something in the future. We want to show that you must have a big vision and be ready to deliver." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
Black silicon has practical applications, such as cameras and night vision goggles, but Kenneth C. Hammond ’12—who works in Mazur’s lab—hopes to create more efficient solar cells with the new substance...
...VISION UNREALIZED
...which suspects were found to have committed suicide under unlikely conditions, probably killed by police or other inmates. Such a suspect was, police said, "suicided." And there are now many variations on the phrase, like bei hexie, which means "to be harmonized" (a critical take on Hu's vision of a harmonious society): "My website was harmonized" is a way of saying it was shut down...