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Policies that cut carbon emissions can have a direct positive impact on human health now as well. Imagine how much better off our environment and our cholesterol levels might be if more of us biked to work rather than drove - or if city planners put greater emphasis on designing more walkable communities and ensuring sustainable public transportation. But the reality is that climate change is happening today, and will be worse tomorrow, even if we manage to pull together a global effort to reduce carbon emissions, which seems less likely and more difficult every day. (A commentary in the April...
...Crusader Crashes All the psychoanalyzing about what drove Eliot Spitzer to risk his career by conducting illegal extramarital entanglements seems pointless [March 24]. I doubt such urges in elected officials are different from those of ordinary people who jeopardize their families and careers with such behavior. My heart goes out to Spitzer's family members, who have to endure publicly what others suffer privately. Nadia El-Badry, DOBBS FERRY...
...sophomore didn’t disappoint. Batting seventh, he had three knocks in four at bats and drove in junior Harry Douglas in the third to increase the Crimson’s lead to 3-0. Though Harvard lost the game 14-4, Zailskas impressed Walsh, who moved the sophomore up to fifth in the order against Princeton last weekend...
...losing by one run,” Allard said. Trailing 5-2 in its final at-bat, it looked like the Crimson was finally going to get that timely hitting. With two outs and runners on second and third sophomore Jessica Pledger knocked a shot to right field that drove in two.Two batters later the bases were loaded for Krysiak. But Krysiak lined out to third to end the rally.“We had a lot of energy,” Madick said. “We all felt that we were going to win that game...
...circus acts, a city of wild abandonment and self-forgetting. Interesting, certainly, but not particularly family-friendly. Vacationing with my parents and two younger sisters in a quieter part of town, we soon grew bored with the limited options for non-partiers. So we rented a car and drove across the bridge spanning Lake Pontchartrain, passing the recently rebuilt levees on our way to the Lower Ninth Ward. Debris on the shore stretched inland for hundreds of yards before giving way to rows of houses—if they could still be called that. Roofs snapped in two rested precariously...