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...Institute, an environmental NGO that specializes in water, unchecked global warming may cause the world's seas to rise more than 4.6 ft. (1.4 m). The California government commissioned the institute's study, released on March 11, one of a number of forthcoming reports on how climate change will affect the coastal state and one of the most detailed analyses yet on the local impact of rising seas...
...were never officially considering Eve 6.” The concert, which will be open to Harvard undergraduates, will take place on a Sunday this year, as opposed to last year’s Saturday performance. Mee said he does not expect the Sunday date to affect turnout, as the concert was held on Sunday in its first iteration and still saw a large turnout. He added that it should be over by 9 p.m. Last year, pop-rock artist Gavin DeGraw and hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan performed on the steps of Memorial Church to a crowd...
...director of the Center for Art & Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, said that Mosher’s work is an example of how artists can instigate change on issues of global importance. “We live in a visual culture, and artists can affect how people see the world,” he said. Mosher said she was motivated to complete this large-scale project by a desire to open up a more diverse discourse on environmentalism. “The environmental community seemed to be self-selective and not diverse,” she said...
Besides, Limbaugh plays a valuable role within conservatism. His show, like Fox News, is not as high-flown as conservative intellectual journals such as the New Criterion and First Things. But those publications have small circulations. Their influence is long-term and indirect. Conservatism needs mass media too, to affect day-to-day politics: jam phone lines and pull the national conversation rightward. It needs Limbaugh and the many like-minded talkers elsewhere on the airwaves. Doubtless they could do their jobs better, as could the conservative writers who scorn them. But if Limbaugh did not exist, conservatives would have...
...first quarter of next year, the hospital has not received its indirect payments as quickly, resulting in less revenue on hand. “That just shows you how things you would never anticipate—dozens of researchers all of the sudden being more prudent—affect the bottom line of the hospital,” Levy said. He said that this loss might be counteracted by an increase in NIH funding, pledged as part of Obama’s stimulus package. Levy attributed the remaining major losses to the operating budget to a decreased patient load because...