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Forward-thinking medical institutions are taking a hard look at their energy portfolio. "I've seen a huge uptick in hospitals exploring and investigating" ways to reduce fossil-fuel dependence, says Nick DeDominicis of Practice Green Health, particularly since 2007 when World Health Organization and U.N. reports suggested that climate change due to fossil-fuel use and CO2 emissions could threaten public health. Hospitals, such as the California-based Kaiser Permanente and San Francisco's Catholic Healthcare West, have gone greener by swapping out old equipment for more energy-efficient systems of heating, cooling, lighting and dehumidifying. DeDominicis says...
...will get rowdy and rush the field just like it was a football championship. It may be hard to see, but if you look past the shirtless men and inappropriate cheers, you see how this means so much to a women’s team who has taken a huge step in its program’s history. “It was great to see them, all the fans out,” co-captain Nikki Rhodes said. “It’s great support for our program and for women’s sport in general...
...short, yes, we did nothing except get our foot in the door. That was a huge first step, but now we must make good on our ability to make America more tolerant and its policies more sensible. After round after round of defeat, it’s tempting for Democrats to consider an electoral victory their ultimate achievement. Instead, it is a means to an end. Like it or not, there is more hard work on the horizon, and President Obama will need all the help he can get. Nathaniel S. Rakich ’10, a Crimson editorial writer...
China announced a huge economic stimulus package on Sunday, pledging to spend some 4 trillion renminbi - about $586 billion - on a wide range of moves designed to boost an economy starting to feel the effects of the worldwide financial crisis. The move was widely welcomed by economists and investors. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main index gained 3.5% on the following day, while the Shanghai Composite Index soared...
...again. The current crisis and the fighting around it are apt to push more buttons than most. First, it is evocative. The Congolese town of Goma that is the center of the crisis was also where the world first had its clearest glimpse of the Rwanda atrocities. Secondly, a huge amount of the world's most important minerals, including one involved in the making of cellphones, emanate from the region and specifically from areas controlled by the combatants. (See pictures of the humanitarian disaster in Congo...