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...carbon markets in the European Union have traded at least 500 million tons of CO2. Because the Bush Administration dropped out of Kyoto, the U.S. doesn't participate in this booming global trade. But state governments are starting to set up regional carbon markets based on caps they establish under their own authority. In December, seven Northeastern states led by New York agreed to cut power-plant emissions via cap and trade, beginning...
DIED. ADDWAITYA, around 250 years old, giant tortoise thought to have been the world's oldest living creature; in a zoo in Calcutta. Brought from the Seychelles to India by British sailors in the 1700s, Addwaitya (Bengali for "the one and only") first belonged to Robert Clive, who helped establish colonial rule in India. Clive died in 1774, but his pet stayed on in the garden of his estate, moving to the zoo 100 years later...
...argued that the impetus behind the Iraq invasion was not to promote democracy, as the Bush administration claimed. Chomsky instead said that the American government ordered an invasion of Iraq in order to maintain its hegemony against China and to establish a U.S.-friendly puppet government...
...Committee on House Life (CHL) took a step toward a standardized College-wide policy giving upperclassmen the choice to live in mixed-sex rooms yesterday. The committee of students, faculty, and administrators endorsed plans for a task force to establish guidelines that would—in principle—permit co-ed rooming in all 12 Houses, according to members. CHL members said they hope the task force will make it easier for male and female undergraduates to live in suites together by the fall of 2007. According to the Harvard College Handbook for Students, “Harvard does...
...Dean’s Office and HCL to explore three strategies for reducing the cost of coursepacks. For starters, professors and teaching staff should receive more guidance about how to use electronic resources effectively when compiling coursepacks. Secondly, the Dean’s Office should work with HCL to establish a centralized system to ensure that departments are doing all that they can to utilize E-Resources to bring down the cost of coursepacks. At Columbia College Chicago, for example, teaching staff submit reading lists and librarians create a web page with links directly to the articles that are available...