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Alternate energy?; closing the Gates; eyeing Williams; Unhappy Harvard

8:59 AM Fri, Jul 24, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

A University of Connecticut law professor, Richard Pomp, calls his student John Belanger very "energetic.'' Indeed, it would take a lot of energy to do what Mr Belanger is accused of: Helping to mastermind a $250-million-a-year marijuana-smuggling ring. XXX......

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 Tags  Conde Nast   Henry Louis Gates   John Belanger   Richard Pomp   Williams College Museum of Art  

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Hannaford LEEDs the way

6:51 PM Wed, Jul 22, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

The "greenest'' supermarket in America may be new Hannaford store in Augusta, Maine, which has the U.S. Green Building Council's highest standard -- a Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. The AP notes that much of......

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 Tags  Hannaford  

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Arts and Crafts at the MFA

6:22 PM Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Photos (two are below) and commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN The buildings, furniture, and decorative art of the firm of Greene & Greene is the subject of an exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts that runs until mid-October. While......

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 Tags  Charles Sumner Greene; Henry Mather Greene   MIT   Museum of Fine Arts  

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Newport executioner; WGU outrage; Emersonian loans; polls in the wind

5:37 PM Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING Even on a nice summer day at the Swiss Village, in Newport, R.I., death stalks us. XXX Now that Harvard Regius Professor of Celebrity Henry Louis Gates has been properly liberated from any charges......

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 Tags  Alex Beam; Narragansett windmills   Dunes Club   Emerson College   Henry Louis Gates; WGU   student loans  

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Smelly sound

5:45 PM Mon, Jul 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Swimming in, or eating fish from, the almost landlocked western part of Long Island Sound has always seemed dubious to me. And its i "dead zone'' of low dissolved oxygen seems to be getting worse, 180 square miles last......

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 Tags  Interstate Environmental Commission  

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Cronkite's 'giant leap' for space program

7:33 AM Mon, Jul 20, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

It's resonant that Walter Cronkite should die almost on the anniversary of the "giant leap for mankind'' of the 1969 lunar landing. Cronkite had a kid's passion for the American space program -- a real cheerleader for it.......

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