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...Green won the League last year despite missing Keat all of last year with a knee injury. A teammate of Henderson on the U-23 New Zealand team,Keat is fantastic in the air on set pieces and already leads the team in goals (four...
...commuter rail train hit a metal back stop on Tuesday—injuring 18 people—and two other trains nearly collided on Monday. And in May, two Green Line trolleys collided and injured dozens because the operator was text messaging...
Despite its traditional colors, Harvard is apparently one of the greenest schools in the nation, according to the Princeton Review’s “2010 Green Rating Honor Roll” published this past July. Along with 14 other schools, Harvard received the top score of 99 according to green-rating criteria developed by the Princeton Review and ecoAmerica, a non-profit environmental organization. That recognition has drawn much deserved attention to the abundance of green initiatives taking off at the university...
Energy and cost-saving measures are at the heart of Harvard’s new Green Building Guidelines, which govern the construction of buildings costing over $5 million to insure they meet a set of sustainability benchmarks. Harvard now has 20 building projects certified by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating systems, the most of any institution of higher education in the world. Three have also gone on to earn the highest distinction of a special Platinum certification in recognition of their superior sustainability standards...
...university should be commended for making the far-sighted decision to continue aggressively pursuing green initiatives, even while dealing with a budget deficit and other serious financial issues. Seeing these projects through will offer both financial and environmental paybacks that benefit Harvard and its community for the long term...