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...Good, Clean Eating Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked if there are real benefits to organic fruits and vegetables [Sept. 3]. He answered the question in typically contemporary fashion by analyzing only nutritional value - in other words, How does it affect me? A different answer might be reached if we look at the health of factory and farm workers who manufacture and apply chemical fertilizers and pesticides and of those who live downstream and downwind of chemical plants. How about the nutritional value of fish living in rivers or ocean dead zones polluted by agricultural runoff? What if we take into account...
Second, they will present Harvard students with evidence that renewable energy can be unobtrusive and practical. Turbines such as those that may be placed atop William James Hall would be silent—perhaps even aesthetic—everyday reminders that clean energy can come from close to home...
...that renewable energy can and does work reliably and unobtrusively. The solar panels on the Cabot Science Library and the planned wind turbines on William James Hall are a miniscule step in that direction. I hope that both projects will shatter the inertia, ignorance, and general apathy surrounding efficient, clean energy on campus...
...first day of Dorm Crew’s Fall Clean Up found Undergraduate Council (UC) Vice-President and Dorm Crew Captain Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 sleeping with a bundle of T-shirts under his head. The image was fitting, given that part of Sundquist’s job over the next week would include the removal of Harvard-issue pillows from dormitories campus-wide in accordance with a decree made by the Office of Residential Life and the Office of Physical Resources this spring.“As a captain, I had to tell my workers...
...Good, Clean Eating Asking if there are real benefits to organic fruits and vegetables, Dr. Sanjay Gupta said, "scientists have yet to document a definite, long-term negative effect of pesticides on our bodies" [Sept. 3]. Pesticides are poisons designed to kill living things. It is because pesticides are harmful that there are limits on pesticide residues. These limits assume that everyone eats an average diet. If you eat more than the average amount of any one food, you exceed the safe limit. Don Steinke, Vancouver, Washington...