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...confident there exists a less “brute-force” solution than this prehistoric-seeming one. Harvard has been more than content to do the minimum when it relates to this construction, however, as evidenced by the fact that the machinery on site uses high-sulfur fuel, which has been linked to a host of serious health problems. Harvard refused to replace the high-sulfur fuel with low-sulfur fuel—why shell out an additional $200/day when high-sulfur fuel already “meets” regulations? It’s time for Harvard...
...aboard, who had no idea anything had gone awry, the malfunction was a bothersome inconvenience, a mere “problem with the indicator,” as the captain so vaguely and reassuringly cooed over the intercom. The plane circled Logan for two hours, burning off fuel so as to minimize the risk of explosion upon emergency landing...
Toward the end of the meeting, Councilor Marjorie C. Decker, who recently announced that she was running for Massachusetts state senate, proposed that the City fund the fuel-swap...
Oddly, Russia will chair the Group of Eight this year, at a time when its president behaves like another authoritarian leader sitting on vast fossil fuel reserves—Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Furthering his “Bolivarian” revolution and profiting from his oily dollars, Chávez is buying military equipment from Spain and AK-47s (guess where from) for his growing “security forces.” As the Bush administration turns its eyes away from Latin America, Chávez buys influence in the region by aiding Caribbean economies...
...turns out, few lessons were learned from the oil crises of the past, even when Western Europe reduced its dependency on oil. Instead, Europe turned its reliance to gas—largely from Russia. And today, exorbitant fossil fuel prices give unprecedented power to leaders like Putin and Chávez—leaders that, in many cases, started rightfully defending the interests of their nations after damaging laissez-faire regimes featuring rotten privatization programs. Yet, as the case of Ukraine showed last week, they often...