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...cleaning solvent, which was mainly concentrated near Story and Wyeth halls, was discovered during routine tests for the Northwest Corner project. In an e-mail written to the student body yesterday, Dean of Students Ellen M. Cosgrove wrote that the Law School was monitoring a local dry cleaner to see what impact it was having on air quality. “The dry cleaner adjacent to campus updated its equipment in early January, and we are continuing to monitor the impact of the dry cleaning operation on outdoor air,” she wrote. She added that the venting systems...
...married to a member of the first Malaysian team to scale Mt. Everest, the answer, she thought, was obvious. "I married a Hindu man, lived with him as a Hindu, bore him a Hindu child and watched him die as a Hindu," says the now 32-year-old office cleaner. But when Kaliammal went to the hospital in December 2005 to claim her spouse's body after he died of a protracted illness, she received another shock. Her husband, Maniam Moorthy, had secretly converted to Islam before his death, said Islamic authorities. According to Islamic law, he would be buried...
...Argentina employed two immigrant domestic workers: one to cook and one to clean, a common phenomenon in Buenos Aires, where labor is cheap, especially foreign labor. My host mother happened to mention one day that she discouraged Julia, the cook, from working as many hours as Lourdes, the cleaner. Julia, a Nicaraguan who never completed high school and has difficulties understanding the thick Argentine accent, cannot read written directions and is easily confused by regional differences in Central and South American vocabulary. One night, for instance, she was sent out to the grocery store to buy palta (avocado, called aguacate...
...likely to be worse than the middle of the road.” Addressing the ramifications of the panel’s findings, Holdren said the report should be seen as an urgent reminder of what can still be done to mitigate the effects of climate change. Energy efficiency, cleaner energy sources and reduction of deforestation rates all deserve greater focus in the future, he said. Citing the numerous climate change bills already in the Senate, and recent appeals from CEOs of major corporations, such as General Electric, calling upon the U.S. to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Holdren said that...
...warming, Jum’ah asserted that this would be disastrous. “Restricting production means people who need energy are not going to get it,” he said. Instead, Jum’ah said, efforts should be focused on making oil production “cleaner and more user friendly.” His answer prompted another audience member to shout out, “People need energy, not oil!” The CEO said, “Excuse me,” before continuing. Audience members noted Jum’ah?...