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Porter says he will use the next few months to educate the campus...
...year, after oil-producing nations inside and outside the OPEC cartel agreed to cut back production in order to drive prices back up. "Even though we're not nearly as dependent on oil today as we were 30 years ago, it still accounts for 40 percent of our energy use, and last year - when prices were depressed - it accounted for some 14 percent of our GDP," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "So the trebling of the oil price could very well act as a brake on economic growth, by slowing down consumption. When the price at the pump...
Everyone knows there's nothing better than a night-light to banish those monsters that go bump in the night. And so when a study linking the use of night-lights to nearsightedness was published in 1999, guilt-wracked parents were forced to choose between their children's comfort and their own peace of mind. Tonight, parents and children alike can sleep a bit easier: Two studies published in this week's issue of the journal Nature go a long way toward debunking last year's scare; researchers were unable to duplicate the findings reported in the preliminary study. They...
...remained totally at peace. I requested they leave me my credit cards, because they wouldn't be able to use them anyway, and not pull the trigger," Chopra said. He said the robbers complied...
...believe that this is a fair representation of what the councillors would like to work on," Galluccio said. "It puts to use the energy and capabilities of all of the individual councillors...