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...community after Hamas took office in March, has squeezed off all but a trickle of aid to millions of desperate Palestinians. Only by bringing Hamas on board in a government that recognizes the State of Israel can Abbas persuade the Bush Administration and other international donors to resume the flow of funds and supplies to keep the Palestinian administration from collapsing...
...last three years, the Harvard men’s soccer team has opened its season with losses to the Catamounts—with last year’s tight 1-0 defeat a display of how the Catamounts have stunned the Crimson before it could even get into the flow of the season. With six games under its belt this season—and a 4-2-0 record to boast—Harvard hopes keep its momentum rolling early in the season by knocking off Vermont. It will be nearly impossible for the Catamounts to once again shut...
...residents of three residential Houses found their toilet-draining options doubled when they returned to Cambridge this year: Eliot, Kirkland, and Dunster Houses installed dual-flush handles in an initiative to reduce water waste. A standard downward push uses a mere 1.6 gallons, a standard amount for a low-flow toilet. But bathroom-goers will be able to save even more water with an upward push on the handle—let’s call it “flush number one”—which is intended for that very purpose, and uses a mere...
...thus decreasing the amount of land that has to be dedicated to agriculture--is probably one of the most practical ways of protecting wildlife habitats and reducing erosion. And new micro-dosing techniques, in which a capful of fertilizer is applied to the roots of a plant, minimize the flow of chemicals into rivers and streams...
...saving resources,” Phillips said. While Adams House was also “offline” this past summer, the dual flush handles were not installed there because Adams—like most of the Houses—was already equipped with conventional low-flow toilets that typically use between 1.6 and 1.9 gallons per flush. According to Phillips, approximately 80 percent of residential toilets at Harvard are low-flow. “We took it one step further by adding the dual flushometers to the low-flow toilets that enables a person to either select either half...