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Diodes in the solar panels capture the sun’s ultraviolet rays, which are converted to standard AC power without generating unwanted by-products like greenhouse gases. According to the fall 2003 Harvard Green Campus Initiative newsletter, the benefits of Harvard’s new solar panel system extend beyond its ability to produce “clean” power...
...Ninos and La Ninas occur once every two to seven years, whereas hurricane activity in the Atlantic appears to oscillate on time scales that extend over 20 years or more. There are, however, indications that the El Nino cycle may be embedded in a longer-term oscillation, widely known as the PDO, or Pacific decadal oscillation. Some scientists are convinced that the PDO has shifted into a mode in which El Ninos, which dominated the 1980s and '90s, have become muted, allowing La Ninas and La Nadas and their attendant hurricanes to become more prominent...
Chopra said that this year’s Campus Life Committee should try to extend the deadline for room parties to 2 a.m., host more events for first-years in Loker Commons and try to bring more student-friendly productions to Sanders Theatre...
...personal information that can then be used to trace the perpetrator of any future abuse. Indeed, Microsoft itself will in some nations - including the U.S., Japan and Canada - require such subscriptions of between $2 and $10 per month to gain access to MSN chat rooms. So why not extend the same secure service elsewhere? "There is a fundamental difference in scale between America and the U.K., France and others," says Sutton. "In the smaller markets, we considered the trade-off between safety and access, and decided to close the service." That sounds more like a business decision than an ethical...
...Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable—flirting with boys—to the purely satanic bearing a child out of wedlock or being raped by one’s cousin. In reprisal for these transgressions, the nuns of the Laundry subject the women to humiliation, threats of eternal damnation, and pure outright...