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...fourth quarter: Pizzotti just missed Cook bad on a short pass. He's been pretty inaccurate today, but he hasn't thrown anything that Penn can catch, thankfully for Harvard fans. The Crimson will punt from its own 12. Another punt into the wind gives the Quakers the ball at the Crimson 45. Good field position for Penn...
Open ambition is a dangerous thing for a mafioso. For years, Salvatore Lo Piccolo managed to mask his highest aspirations as he rose from loyal foot soldier to the upper reaches of the Mafia hierarchy. The 65-year-old Palermo native always seemed to know how to wind up on the winning side of internal feuds, a gift that eventually made him supreme boss in the Sicilian capital. But Lo Piccolo wanted more: control over the entire island of Sicily, expanded cooperation with U.S. mobsters, even the title of capo dei capi - the boss of bosses...
...Virginia, Kansas and North Carolina. But some Democrats worry that those fragile gains could be difficult to hold in 2008 if one of the most polarizing figures in politics is at the top of the ticket. "We have a lot of districts that are 50-49, where if the wind blows too hard, it's going to switch," says Missouri House Democratic whip Connie Johnson, a John Edwards supporter. "Many tell me that Hillary would be a lightning rod in their districts." Union officials say similar concerns have influenced their decisions regarding candidate endorsements. That helps explain...
Life is supposed to get easier with new technology. Donald Norman wishes it were really so. Instead, he says, as devices evolve, people wind up befuddled and annoyed. The culprit: bad design, a longtime target of the Northwestern University professor. In his seminal 1990 book, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman explained why, for example, people so often switch on the wrong burner of an oven range--in a person's mind, a straight row of control knobs doesn't logically map onto a square stove...
...solutions to the problem—including renewable sources of energy and putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions—he emphasized that “each of these approaches has limitations and liabilities.” Holdren said it is difficult to find acceptable locations to build wind turbines. People’s mentality has “changed...from ‘not in my backyard’ to ‘build absolutely nothing anywhere near anybody,’” he said. Yesterday’s address was part of a semester-long...