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...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 3 edition of Nature argued that the technological changes needed to decarbonize energy could be much harder than we thought; meanwhile, over in Bangkok, diplomats at the U.N. climate conference last week made little...
...effort to free up parking spaces for patrons of local stores and restaurants, the city of Cambridge has just made it a little costlier to park a car in Harvard Square. A notice on the city’s website announced that the parking meter rates in both Harvard and Kendall Squares will double next week; the 25 cents that currently buy a half hour will soon only be worth a 15-minute stint. Executive Director of the Harvard Square Business Association Denise A. Jillson said that the decision resulted from ongoing discussions regarding parking in the square, especially...
...Crimson, what transpired at the TD Banknorth Garden transformed Harvard’s season from a mid-season slump into an 8-2-1 finish in which Taylor frustrated opposing goaltenders with four goals and three assists.But the Beanpot could have been nothing more than a team summoning additional effort to face an old rival in an exciting Boston tradition. Instead Harvard found the spark that dogged it throughout the losing streak and brought it to the ECAC playoffs to survive two single-elimination games in a row before the Tigers ended its season. Maybe these turning points...
...regular events to define McCain in advance of open combat of the general election. Having already traveled overseas last month and burnished his biography this week, he is set to return to Washington, D.C., next week for the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus, who is commanding the military effort in Iraq. That will be followed by a continued tour of parts of the country not often visited by Republican candidates, like New Orleans and Appalachia, as a way of displaying McCain's maverick character and hope for expanding his party's base of voters...
...Zimbabwe's regeneration, says Michelle Gavin, Adjunct Scholar on Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations, "would have to be an all-hands-on-deck effort." International financial institutions and donors, which ended their involvement to protest the regime's corruption and human rights abuses, would be likely to step in with emergency programs to bring Zimbabwe back from the brink. And already international investors sense a bargain in the making. LonZim, an investment fund set up by the Lonrho mining group last December, has already raised $65 million to invest in Zimbabwe. "We're very bullish that Zimbabwe...