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...concedes that the group's 300 or so cruisers, whose wildest event was your typical cruise-ship hot-tub party, weren't particularly loud partyers or a disturbance to other passengers. But Carnival wouldn't discuss the new ban, simply sending an e-mail statement that the line had "made the decision not to allow any future groups to be booked and marketed on our ships under this theme. It was a business decision...
...lesson of the past year is that mistakes made on Wall Street can have real bad side effects on the rest of the economy," says Robert Johnson, a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a former chief economist of the Senate Banking Committee. "And that's adequate grounds to put in restraints before we have to have the next bailout." (See award-winning pictures of the fallout from the financial crisis...
...lower than CO2 emissions, pound for pound methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas; a ton of it has 23 times the warming effect of a ton of CO2. And methane, like CO2, is on the rise thanks to us: about 60% of global methane emissions come from man-made sources, and the atmospheric concentration of methane has increased by around 150% since 1750, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Now there's new focus on a pair of methane sources that we usually don't think of as natural polluters: wetlands and rice paddies. (See pictures...
...back seriously on rice paddy cultivation, and wetlands are far too important to the environment as groundwater filters and buffers against coastal floods. "I just don't see any way to control methane emissions from wetlands," says Palmer. Instead, we'll need to focus on methane emissions from man-made sources - like landfills or natural gas drilling - and cut what is still greenhouse...
...major factor was our financial aid program,” Fitzsimmons said in an interview with The Crimson today. “Certainly that’s made a big difference to us since the inception of the program. There’s been a major change in the amount of interest in Harvard around the country and around the world...