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Lights Out. If your hotel goes dark this weekend, don't be alarmed. To honor Earth Hour - organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to encourage businesses and people to take simple steps every day to reduce carbon emissions - many hotels and cities are turning off the lights on Saturday, March 28, from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The WWF hopes that it can get 1 billion people in more than 1,700 cities and towns in 80 countries to participate. Switching off your lights is a vote for the earth, says the WWF, while leaving them...
Whistle-Blowing. The nation's first transcontinental railroad was completed May 10, 1869, in Promontory Summit, Utah, where the "golden spike" was pounded into the final tie, finally connecting 1,776 miles of rail. In honor of this august event, Amtrak is celebrating National Train Day, offering Amtrak Guest Rewards members the ability to earn double points for their first four trips taken through May 8, triple points after their fifth trip, and quadruple points for any trip taken on May 9. If you travel Saturday, May 9 through Amtrak's Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago or Los Angeles station...
...rays to analyze and authenticate the Fogg Museum’s expanding art collection, and he appropriately called the Fogg a “laboratory for art history.” Today, the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies has become the Straus Center for Conservation, in honor of long time benefactors Lynn and Philip A. Straus ’36. It continues to pioneer novel methods of conservation, which it then describes in its own journal. The Straus Center provides analysis and treatment for the over 150,000 objects, from all times and places, throughout Harvard?...
...writing to thank and commend The Harvard Crimson for its coverage of the historic stamp issuance ceremony we held to honor Harvard Law School graduate and civil rights legend Charles Hamilton Houston, Jr., here in Cambridge, Saturday, February 21, 2009. While the Crimson’s article accurately conveyed the content and spirit of the event, it overlooked the exceptionally important work of my friend and colleague, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who served on the United States Postal Service Committee responsible for selecting individuals to be honored by the issuance of stamps. He played a key role in seeing...
...honor 12 civil-rights pioneers the same year marking the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the 100th anniversary of the founding the NAACP, the 80th anniversary of the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the inauguration of President, and Harvard Law School graduate, Barack Obama is a worthy tribute. We ought to commend Professor Gates for his extraordinary efforts to honor these giants in this way, and I hope this letter brings him some measure of the thanks he rightly deserves...