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...Public Health is often considered one of the best in the country—its masters of public health degree is the most selective program run by any school at Harvard—Frenk will face a few significant challenges as dean.The school has outgrown its rented office space in the Longwood Medical Area, for example, and one of Frenk's biggest tasks will be to plan and preside over a move to new facilities in Allston.Additionally, though the school has a reputation as a powerhouse, it is also less wealthy than many of Harvard's other units, meaning that...
...Scottish businessman Robert Anderson pioneered the first electric carriage in the 1830s, most electric vehicles have lacked one of the key markers of auto success: good looks. Just take a look at La Jamais Contente, designed by Belgian Camille Jénatzy in 1899, or Billard and Zarpe's space-age oddity, the Elektra King (1961). Even today's models - the REVA, or Zap!'s Xebra - are proof that the best adjective to describe most electric cars remains quirky...
Beyond making up the bricks of life, carbon is virtually inescapable in industry as well. The plastics that can be found in everything from your chair to the space shuttle contain carbon - as does, of course, our energy supply. Our main fossil fuels - coal, petroleum and gasoline - are made up of carbon that has been compressed in the Earth for millions of years and we're now burning and rapidly restoring to the atmosphere. (The same process occurs when we burn wood in a fireplace...
...party, and he's not a Ba'athist. He was only an employee in the bank." Asked how she would confront the soldiers who killed her husband, she says, "I would ask them, Why did you do this to us? Look at our situation. We barely have enough space to sleep...
...inversion of the usual '60s-retrospective equation (J.F.K. + space = optimism). But what makes Mad Men great TV is how it subverts our expectations. Thus the philandering Don turns out to be Peggy's biggest backer in the sexist office. Thus Peggy in turn is not a persecuted saint but competent, focused--and sometimes cold. And thus a surprise twist in the second episode reveals Pete to be both opportunistic and sympathetic...