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...Take, for instance, the matter of laundry. With over 6,000 undergraduates, Harvard students have a lot of clothes to wash. If each student does laundry once a week—and this is assuming only one load of laundry??that’s over 180,000 loads per academic year. Not only is that a lot of water, it’s also a lot of laundry detergent—over 280,000 ounces of liquid detergent, to be precise, given that the detergent of choice is doubly concentrated. Unfortunately, most of this laundry detergent...
...Laundry??for the first time since February. Spare the public the clothes that look more like compost than cotton...
People expect a lot from science—that it will eradicate disease, put us in contact with aliens, create robots that do our laundry??but the claims sometimes border on extravagant. In a New York Times essay this week, Dennis Overbye continues this trend by arguing that science (what he calls the “most successful human activity of all time”) elevates democracy. Because science does not purport to provide ethical guidance, he says, it transcends the divisions of culture and creed to bring people together...
...fair, the conference did not insist on serving Moroccan tagines in cities where even vegetable burgers have trouble gaining a foothold. The “dessert-flips” (think more fruit, less cheesecake) demonstrated under the instruction of Stephen Dufree—pastry chef at the French Laundry??and the Turkish Roasted Eggplant Sandwiches taught by goddess of Mediterranean cuisine Joyce Goldstein were more marketing ploys to sell the idea than specifics about the plan of implementation. Panelists and attendees consistently broke down the practical application of the nutritional advice and offered recipe alternatives that would...
...well. Groups at the College have also been working to keep more than just the grass in the yard green. The Environmental Action Committee (EAC), which organizes such events as Earth Day, environmental rallies, and even the airing out of President Bush’s “dirty laundry?? in the front of the Science Center, ran a renewable energy campaign last January. It successfully obtained 83 percent student approval in the Undergraduate Council’s presidential election to add $10 to each student’s termbill in order to power 25 percent of student...