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...kids gonna be out here all night?” The HUPD officer who asked should’ve known better. The two Arctic weather-proof tents pitched in the middle of the Malkin Athletic Center quad were a dead give away, but it was too late: the hapless member of Harvard’s finest had just become an unwitting straight man. “Well, sir,” said Corey M. Rennell ’07, a Crimson photo editor, drawing out his words for added effect, to the delight of the eleven other students gathered around...
...some tough decisions and painful sacrifices. Policies must be enacted to encourage consumers and businesses to become less dependent on gasoline; research and implementation of renewable energy technology must be pursued as a national priority, not as a footnote to perennially-stalled and misguided attempts to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling...
...down prices, some of which Rove had previously discussed in the staff chiefs' meeting. Bush suspended additional deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to divert that crude to the market. He called for more tax incentives for hybrid cars, fewer environmental hurdles for refinery builders, drilling wells in the Arctic and congressional authority to raise mileage requirements on cars. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who earlier in the week had advised voters to drive slower and get a tune-up, was fronting a Republican proposal to send a $100 rebate to most taxpayers--which they could return...
...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...
...professor of biology and Agassiz professor of zoology, along with Neil H. Shubin, professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago, and Edward B. Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia formed the core group of scientists who made the discovery in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago...