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...would have blamed them for a sub-par performance. Traveling to Rhode Island and Connecticut for the last stops on the most grueling stretch of its schedule, the Crimson co-ed sailing team could have been forgiven for showing some signs of fatigue, despite the importance of the upcoming Atlantic Coast Championships. Instead, however, the team ended its series of marathon weekends with a bang, surging to a second-place finish in the Nelson Regatta at Connecticut College and missing first by only ten points—a performance that could prove to be important for the upcoming women?...
...years ago, most people outside France would have scoffed at such claims. The accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant in 1979 and the disaster at Chernobyl seven years later turned an already skeptical world public against nuclear energy. Moreover, oil as cheap as $10 per barrel in the 1990s destroyed its economic rationale. But times have changed. Lessening energy dependence on unstable Middle Eastern and other countries is now a government priority in many countries. And with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil prices spiking at more than $60/bbl and fears growing among the public at large...
There was only one reason that clients ranging from Native-American tribes to Fortune 500 CEOs to Pacific Island potentates were willing to pay Jack Abramoff millions. The lobbyist at the center of a spreading scandal that has touched numerous lawmakers, including former House majority leader Tom DeLay, had access like few others to people in power. But in the place that mattered most, even someone as well-connected as Abramoff needed help. When he had to make sure his clients' concerns got the attention of the right people in the George W. Bush White House, Abramoff often turned...
...June. (A rival system called Pelamis, using 120-m-long hinged cylinders, was successfully tested in Scotland in April.) Once commissioned, Energetech's plant is expected to feed into the local grid enough clean power for 500 homes. Energetech is developing several commercial-scale projects from Israel to Rhode Island. Wave energy, Denniss says, is "more consistent, predictable and concentrated than wind. It's also inexhaustible." Having studied the ocean's power all his life, he's in no doubt that it will soon be turning on our lights...
...disappointing. As much as I like Wyclef and the Fugees, I was really up for a rock band this time. The Fugees are so middle school—when I think “Wyclef,” I think MTV Spring Break, when they followed him around an island on a scooter. Jeff Dubbin ’07 I think this shows that the UC’s out of touch. I can’t figure out why they think we’d want to see all these rappers. If they put up a poll...