Now in its 27th year, the South by Southwest Music Festival, held last week here, seems to offer musicians the promise of a rocket ride to stardom.

WSJ: The New Promise of South by Southwest | By Jim Fusilli

Environmentalists howled and state regulators ultimately held him to one, extracting a promise to make the project ostensibly carbon neutral by shutting down 800 megawatts of older coal plants by 2018.

FORBES: A Dirty Game

Candidates must not currently hold a permanent academic post, or have ever held a permanent academic post in the past, or have received, before the start date of the award, the promise of a permanent academic post.

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