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...from students, faculty, and staff up to $100. Harvard ended up matching $245,877 of donations to a variety of charities. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the University again offered to match donations. Although the exact numbers have yet to be released, preliminary indications suggest that donations will exceed the amount for the tsunami relief effort. Offering a donation matching program after these two catastrophes was the right thing for the University to do. Although Harvard’s primary mission is educational and academic, Harvard is also a community of nearly 35,000 and an employer of over...
...those stranded in the Himalayas last week, the full scale of the disaster became more apparent. The 7.6-magnitude earthquake that hammered northern Pakistan and India on Oct. 8 flattened entire villages, burying scores of people whose bodies remain unrecovered. In Pakistan, officials expect the final toll to exceed 50,000 dead, with many thousands injured and more than 2 million people left homeless. In India, the quake killed more than 1,300 and left more than 100,000 without shelter. For the survivors, the devastation of the quake was followed by even more misery, as untold numbers in remote...
...claims of permanent environmental degradation. “We can prove, using modern data, that the increase [in C02 concentration] is not part of a natural cycle,” Schrag said. Schrag also said that for the last 800,000 years or more CO2 concentration did not exceed 300 parts per million. Today, the concentration is at 380 and “by the end of the century it will be between 900 and 1,000.” Schrag also insisted that there is “no single solution to climate change,” and that...
...Center. And the Barker Center. And Memorial Hall. And Widener. When I’m asked, repeatedly, by a balding, elderly gentleman and his wife whether I’m happy (they had read in a magazine that Harvard students are not happy) and whether my IQ happens to exceed 120 (a friend had told them that this was a requirement for admission), I want to tear my hair out slowly—follicle by follicle. When I have to walk along the periphery of the Yard to get to class because the 50 yards in front of the John...
...news from the area may get worse: Some Pakistani officials are saying the death toll could exceed 50,000. Word is starting to reach Balakot from higher up in the Himalayas, where dozens of villages went tumbling down the mountainsides - it may take days, or even weeks, before rescuers can reach them...