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...launched its bike-sharing program on Earth Day yesterday, and hopes to attract students to sign up for the program at the event on Saturday, where bikes will be available for testing...
...event publicizing his new cookbook at Harvard Bookstore, Chef Peter Davis urged consumers to “Buy Local!” Davis, the chef of Henrietta’s Table, a restaurant at the Charles Hotel, was promoting “Fresh and Honest: Food from the Farms of New England and the Kitchen of Henrietta’s Table.” Davis penned the book to promote local farmers and products. He spoke ruefully about the difficulties small farmers face when competing with more profitable mass-market farms. But he said that he was hopeful that small...
...than leaving that decision up to whoever is in the White House. (It so happens that the current occupant is sympathetic to the position that we should limit emissions, but, as evidenced by the two previous administrations, this won’t always be the case.) And, in any event, the likely outcome of an actual EPA attempt to regulate emissions would be years of contentious litigation that get us nowhere. Environmentalists, rejoice...
...When you left the Department, did you foresee the possibility of government mishandling an event like Katrina...
...that I take absolutely no responsibility. My huge disappointment is that it’s not as if my team and others who were still in the department had not anticipated there might be a time when the state and local resources are overwhelmed by a catastrophic event. I regret, frankly that I wasn’t in charge because I think we would have done things differently. Procedures and protocols are not sexy stuff, but there are certain operational structures that we built to handle precisely that kind of event that were either ignored or deployed later than...