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...Green Campus Initiative to reduce emissions, according to its associate executive dean for physical resources and planning, Linda Snyder. “We’ve got great programs, and we have a number of things in the works,” she said. FAS is already at the forefront of the anti-global warming effort—in research, at least. FAS members’ studies have helped to confirm the reality of global warming—perhaps most famously like the work of Roger Revelle, the oceanographer featured in the film by ’69 alum...
...squad. The result: the Blue Devils made it to the championship game of the NCAA tournament last year.Now, the crop of top-tier basketball talent is deeper at a larger, more well-known basketball powerhouse such as Duke. But members of this Crimson scout team, with Putchel at its forefront, possess a commitment for similar results.“One of his goals is to get us to the NCAA tournament,” Rollins said.Make that happen and this band of ex-JV, ex-high school, and ex-Gophers will no longer be just scout teamers—they...
...university, as a center of open discourse, is uniquely positioned to improve the quality of relevant debates. As one-third of the so-called “axis of evil” and as the focus of an intense and divided nuclear debate, North Korea is at the forefront of global politics today. In late November, American diplomats traveled to China to meet with North Korean officials, and international talks about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program are expected to resume shortly. The ambassador’s viewpoint, therefore, would be a fascinating and relevant perspective for both...
They weren't the firstdesigner plush dolls, and they probably won't be the last, but a cast of 15 unattractive, ever evolving characters called Uglydolls?each accompanied by a quirky, amusing narrative?have plopped down at the forefront of the designer-toy movement. The dolls' creators, David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim, are themselves outsiders in a nearly monopolized corporate toy industry. Their first doll, a snaggle-toothed, apron-donning orange blob named Wage who, the story goes, works at a grocery store and lives for chocolate-chip-cookie dough, was born...
...says. “‘Oh, I have to take this class, so that I can get into a certain AP class, because we need AP classes to get into Harvard.’ It’s not at the forefront, we’re not doing everything we do to get into Harvard, but we’re all just sort of conscious. Should we join this club versus this club to get into Harvard?” Wang pauses. “I don’t know how to describe...