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...state laws fine and sometimes jail owners of derelict vessels. The problem is, there's a strong financial disincentive against retrieving and recycling sunken vessels. Dismantling a 40-ft. yacht costs an owner on average $5,000 to $10,000, but the costs can run to 100 times that amount. "You can't just crush it up into a cube," says Helton. Meanwhile, state fines for abandonment run a lot lower, as little as $100. Definitions of vessel, abandonment and ownership also vary among states, which means that ship owners can sometimes sink boats and get off scot-free. Federal...
Bloom, who will step down as dean after a decade-long tenure, expressed nothing but confidence in his successor, noting that Frenk will add “a huge amount of real life experience” to the work of the school...
...class of 2012, 82.6% of students come from outside New England, with 11.7% coming from outside of the United States. While it makes for a more varied student body than one would meet at most state schools, Harvard’s geographical diversity contributes to a certain amount of loneliness. There are times when all we really want is a sandwich from a local restaurant back home or the face of a friend from high school, even if we didn’t particularly like that restaurant or person when we actually lived at home. It is this longing...
...visiting economist. The researchers gave 98 male Harvard undergraduates $250 and asked them to invest the money as they saw fit. If participants made a successful investment—as determined by the flip of a coin—they were rewarded with two-and-a-half times the amount invested. If the “investment” failed, the participant lost his money. The team hoped to further analyze the cross-cultural finding that women are less prone to risky behavior than men. “Because you see these sex differences in risk-taking, we hypothesized that...
...natural systems improve the health of landscapes and basically take care of themselves.” In addition to improving soil and tree health, the sustainable organic method is also more environmentally-sound as the organic plots are less dependent on nitrogen from fertilizers. “The amount of nitrogen being pumped into the ecosystem from fertilizers is having a very serious environmental impact,” said Peter J. del Tredici, a lecturer in landscape architecture and a senior research scientist at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. “A lot agricultural nitrogen...