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...good handle, shifty off the bounce,” Curry said of his Quaker counterpart. “They run a lot of picks to try to free him up, so it’s really tough to guard...
...next play, Mike Howlett received the pass and tried to throw it back to Rosen, but he sent the ball high. Penn’s final turnover of the night gave Harvard the ball with 25 seconds left, setting up freshman Kyle Casey’s eventual game-winning free throws...
...reason we're losing natural capital is because it's free," says Ed Barbier, noting that we often think of conservation in terms of its costs rather than its value, and regard manufactured goods in terms of value rather than their environmental costs. Says Barbier: "When we incorporate the services of ecosystems we may start to think: maybe the costs of maintaining [the integrity of] ecosystems aren't that high compared with the benefits. Maybe the gains we get out of converting nature into commodities are not so large in comparison. The point is that we don't see that...
Right now, he explains, there is an expectation of free and open access to nature. However, its use affects everyone. For example, unless an area is specifically regulated, someone can clear-cut a hardwood forest in a developing nation for the timber. But losing that forest also means the loss of habitat for wildlife, other forest products for food and shelter, soil fertility - plus numerous other functions, including climate regulation, which are not yet completely understood. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Glamser ’12 grabbed a sample of the Goji Berry before heading to class, and we caught him taking his last sip. Though Glamser said that he liked the drink, he told us he would never buy it. "I was just like awesome, free samples!” he said...