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...Calling for a “bipartisan, multinational, multi-generational” coalition to address climate change, Browner began her speech by rattling off nearly a dozen numbers to highlight the scope of the problem. Among them were the 36 cubic miles of Arctic ice—an amount equal to 225 times the annual water use of Los Angeles—that melted in the past year, and the 27 tropical storms, including four Category 5 hurricanes, that developed in the Atlantic in 2005. “If you add up all these numbers, you get big trouble...
...that the article written about the renovations planned for Currier House was titled “Party’s Over.” The party is not over. The article gives the impression that Currier House is losing its trademark party space and that there is a heavy amount of disapproval within the House for the changes. After soliciting input from Currier residents, however, the Currier House Committee found that the renovations are overwhelmingly supported. While the article does manage to fit in all of the renovations that will take place, I feel that it does not do justice...
...said IAOMT member Boyd E. Haley, a professor of bio-organic chemistry at the University of Kentucky and a leading critic of the study. The IAOMT promotes mercury-free dentistry. Haley alleges that the parents of the children participating in the study were not well-informed about the amount of mercury their children would be exposed to. But Harvard Medical School Professor of Neurology David C. Bellinger, lead author of the study, says, “All I can say is based on the way amalgam was used in this study in the amounts it was given over the five...
...sport for passion, not for a scholarship. By instituting an Ivy signing date, players would be free to visit several schools and collect offers before making a final decision. This would reduce the pressure on athletes to make a quid pro quo verbal commitment to a coach, alleviate the amount of lying from all parties, and put an end to the tampering that occurs when coaches do not honor a player’s verbal commitment to attend another Ivy institution...
...because you’re setting yourself up to be like an arbitrator and an umpire,” Sagnella said. “And that’s not our job, we’re trustees.” According to the New Haven pension fund chairs, the amount of money invested in the blacklisted companies is unknown, but it is likely to be small. “We’re unaware [of the quantity], if it’s there we feel it’s a minimal amount,” Kottage said...