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...record-high 54 percent of total refuse was recycled. REPs’ focus on recycling is a component of the Harvard Office for Sustainability’s ongoing efforts to engage people in thinking and acting on sustainability. Some of these include the Sustainability Pledge, which aims to garner over 8,000 signatures of people willing to personally commit to help Harvard reduce its GHG emissions, and the creation of Green Teams, which promote recycling, waste reduction, and sustainable measures at the graduate schools. “We’ve worked hard with the REP program to promote social...
...political tensions. Al-Fadel, a 58-year-old former judge, has filed a petition with the Iraqi Electoral Commission containing 34,800 signatures, or 2% of the province's population (as required by law). After the Commission publicizes the official request through the media this week, its backers must garner an additional 139,200 signatures to meet the required 10% of the province's voting population in order to call a referendum. The central government is then obliged to hold the vote within 15 days. "If we get 51% of the votes, Basra will become a region," al-Fadel says...
...Maliki will address the nation on Monday in a bid to garner public support for the agreement. Washington can only sit back and watch as Iraq's exercise in democracy determines the fate of U.S. troops in the country...
...Greatest Obama Campaign Contributors 3rd Amount of Money Profs Donated Over $500,000 Harvard Profs’ Average Annual Salaries $184, 800 Yale Profs’ Average Annual Salaries $165,100 Number of Hits Obama Would See if He Googled Himself 79,200,000 Number of Hits McCain Would Garner 24,500,000 Pounds of Squash Ordered by Harvard Dining Services 46,000 Varieties of Squash Available for Consumption 5 Waitlist to Donate a Boat to the Crew Team 23 years
...room is also a veritable gallery of mavericks, including pictures of Tom Cruise in Top Gun and Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki, a movie poster from the Mel Gibson/Jodie Foster/James Garner Western and a pic of Palin's ultimate maverick, John McCain, in a cowboy...