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Susan Powers, associate dean for Research and Graduate Studies at Clarkson's Coulter School of Engineering, was paying special attention today when Governor Pataki announced that $24 million was being awarded to two companies for the development and construction of the state's first cellulosic ethanol plants. That's because Powers and other environmental researchers and students at Clarkson will participate in the project with Mascoma Corporation, one of the companies receiving the state funding. Mascoma, with the help of a $14 million grant from the governor, will build a 500,000-gallon-a-year cellulosic ethanol pilot facility in Greece, near Rochester. In addition to Clarkson...

January 22,2004 The Rev. Douglas Taylor-Weiss Church of SS. Peter and John 169 Genesee Street Auburn, NY 13021 Dear Doug: In your letter of October 8, 2003 you and the clergy of the Confessing Anglicans of Central New York requested that in reference to the blessing of same-sex unions I "clearly and unequivocally forbid the clergy of Central New York from conducting or participating in any such liturgical action." Since your letter I have sought the counsel of the Standing Committee, the Deans, the Liturgy and Music Commission and some others as to what my response might be to this...