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...Long Summer going has become threatened. The rise of industrialized agriculture has thrown off Earth's natural nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, leading to pollution on land and water, while our fossil-fuel addiction has moved billions of tons of carbon from the land into the atmosphere, heating the climate ever more. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...article in the Sept. 24 issue of Nature says the safe climatic limits in which humanity has blossomed are more vulnerable than ever and that unless we recognize our planetary boundaries and stay within them, we risk total catastrophe. "Human activities have reached a level that could damage the systems that keep Earth in the desirable Holocene state," writes Johan Rockstrom, executive director of the Stockholm Environmental Institute and the author of the article. "The result could be irreversible and, in some cases, abrupt environmental change, leading to a state less conducive to human development." (See TIME's special report...
City Year also brought Khazei together with Senator Kennedy, who was a longtime advocate for the program and who served as its first-ever corps graduation speaker...
Flaherty came in second place with about a quarter, and City Councilor Sam Yoon, Boston’s first Asian-American elected official and the only Asian-American ever to run for public office in the City, finished third with approximately 20 percent of the vote. Real estate developer Kevin McCrea finished last...
...weekends. There are a few streets, including one near the Quad, that do not require that you have a permit to park there. I carefully researched the options and requirements, and drove my car up from Maryland after spring break last year. I’ve had it here ever since, and have only gotten two parking tickets. It’s basically impossible to drive to class (do you see any parking spaces in Harvard Yard?), but I enjoy the occasional late-night drive, use it to run errands, and drive in to the Square on weekends for extracurriculars...