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...recommendation in the report of the oft-touted Greenhouse Gas Task Force, which Faust convened last winter. Gore grabbed the national spotlight with his Oscar award-winning documentary on global warming—An Inconvenient Truth—and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to increase awareness about the impact of climate change. The University-wide target follows a series of recent, more local pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at Harvard. Last December, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced it would seek to reduce its emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels...
...first proposed in 1979 but did not come to fruition for over two decades. “The process [of obtaining permission] sometimes makes the work much more important,” said Christo, referring to the media attention and iconic identity that the projects gained from each prolonged effort to obtain approval. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are currently working on a project entitled “Over The River”—a six-mile-long stretch of fabric panels suspended over the Arkansas River. It is expected to be completed in the summer of 2012, pending...
...proposed $700 billion bailout of the nation's beleaguered financial markets has become a taffy pull between the Bush Administration and lawmakers from both parties. Many on Capitol Hill believe Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is seeking too much unregulated cash and power in his effort to stabilize the economy by buying up toxic mortgage-backed securities. He's also asking Congress to lift the ceiling on the national debt to a record $11.3 trillion from the current $10.6 trillion, which could weaken the U.S. dollar, raise interest rates and act as an additional drag on the economy. All that money...
...Sometimes they spend so much effort and time on test prep that they lose the other parts of their lives and ironically turn out to be worse college candidates and less prepared for college overall,” he said...
...reforms needed to stop the slaughter from continuing for years to come. "This is a long-term consequence of the economy-oriented ideology," Hu Xingdou, a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, wrote in an online essay about the tainted-milk-powder issue. "There hasn't been an effort to establish a moral foundation to the market economy, and this incident is the inevitable result...