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...your classmates preface their statements with “I think it’s interesting that…,” knowing all the while that the passage they are highlighting is not interesting so much as indicative of the fact that they have done the reading. You spend so much of the section examining the meaning of the word “ideology” or “revolution” that you never manage to discuss the ideology or the revolution itself. All around you, America’s most brilliant young minds are straining...
...European Commission has struggled to overcome divisions among E.U. member states over its stimulus package, details of which are due to be announced on Thursday. The commission wants member states to agree to spend about $163 billion to stimulate growth beyond the separate national recession-battling plans. That sum - about 1% of the E.U.'s combined GNP - would mostly be comprised of money already earmarked for investment in certain regions, sectors and infrastructure. Le Nouveau Deal...
Sampson said the group plans to spend much of the upcoming academic year exploring possible focal points for investigation. Grosz said in the press release that she hopes that the initiative will not only expand the possibilities for work at Radcliffe, but that it will also benefit projects across the University...
...When you give a team four power plays in a row, when you jumpstart their offense, it keeps a lot of guys sitting on the bench, and a lot of our better players spend a lot of effort killing penalties,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “It hurts our overall team game...
That's going to cost roughly $1 trillion a year for all energy investments. And if we want to increase the share of renewables - and control the growth of greenhouse gas emissions - we'll need to spend an additional $9.3 trillion, if we're aiming to stay below the 2 degree C warming max recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Of course, an increasing number of scientists argue that we need to avoid even that level of warming.) "We would need concerted action from all major emitters," said Nabuo Tanaka, the head...