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...joined the cheerleading in April 1995. He traveled to the Fall River, Mass., plant to deliver an Earth Day speech in which he plugged Knight's client as a "shining example of American ingenuity." But as Forbes magazine wrote in January 1996, Molten Metal had yet to prove its method was cost-effective...
...technical peer-review panel said the department should cease funding Molten Metal at the end of the fiscal year. Another Energy Department panel concluded last December that Haney's technology poses environmental and safety risks and might not be cost-effective. The company disputes this, insisting its bath method is both technically sound and marketable...
...schools raise money through the traditional method of mass mailings and holding alumni events in Boston, across the United States and abroad. Divinity school graduates, for example, receive upwards of 8-10 mailings a year detailing current news in the school and asking for money...
...gain a better insight into this dilemma, we must first seek to recognize how Harvard promotes conformity, and then to determine appropriate methods of resistance. One common method that is used to indoctrinate precocious young undergraduates with the philosophy necessary to succeed among America's elite is to place an inordinate value on tradition. The enshrinement of tradition begins with Harvard itself; students are continually exposed to the notion that Harvard's storied past, its influential alumni, and its continuing prestige are worthy of an almost sacred respect...
Nevertheless, the slip was amply quantified. The primary cause was the inclusion of a new factor in the method of ranking. This factor was the percentage of classes with more than 50 students, said Mel Elfin, the magazine's special projects editor and executive editor of the supplement...