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...discharge certain pollutants, like food and operational wastes, as long as ships are away from the coastline and other specially protected areas, such as the Mediterranean and Baltic seas. But Criddle's report warns that despite all regulations, there is still a significant amount of marine debris. "We lack a coordinated strategy dealing with land- and sea-based debris," says Criddle...
...summer at home will often look at our toes upon hearing the glamorous exploits of our fellows, and murmur, “I just stayed home.”Staying home for the summer is nothing to be ashamed of. It is not an indication of laziness or lack of skill. Rather, it satisfies a desire that we often feel but rarely give in to, a desire for routine and a slower pace. When it comes down to it, how many of us would rather spend the summer filing papers and making coffees for some gigantic corporation than going...
Though he proposed potential solutions, Offenheiser also lamented the lack of reform enacted to resolve the food crisis...
...race in the Hood Trophy at Tufts, but, as was the case at Boston University, the weather was not a friend to the Crimson. Harvard finished ninth overall in the regatta, placing tenth in the A-division and eighth in the B-division. The competition was characterized by a lack of wind, which only allowed for three races—the minimum amount required for a regatta to count—to be completed. “[We were] not very happy with the result,” junior Drew Robb said. Skipper Robb and freshman crew Annie DeAngelo placed...
...more worrisome responses were the ones that betrayed her lack of curiosity about current events and reliance on bumper-sticker wisdom over complex thoughts. There were moments, in fact, in which you wondered whether she had been paying any meaningful attention to the world outside Alaska before McCain picked her as his running mate a month ago. (See photos of Sarah Palin on the campaign trail here...