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...Alaska, scientists from NOAA have carried out major studies that show oil still remains just beneath the surface in many parts of the Sound - close enough for animals to be affected by it. "The oil may not leak out in quantities that are immediately visible, but that doesn't mean it's not there," says Jeep Rice, a NOAA scientist who has led the studies. "We thought the cleanup would be a one-shot deal - but it's still lingering...
...absence of any clear directive has cast doubt on Smith’s own grasp of the situation. “The Dean doesn’t exactly know himself what this ‘reshaping’ will mean,” said Classics Department Chair John M. Duffy, calling Smith’s dialect “a visionary approach without exactly having a vision...
...disagree with them, that doesn’t mean that you are evil or somehow conflicted,” he says...
...believe the current economic crisis has made Faust less enthusiastic about the long-term vision for Allston.“She’s a historian, so she gets the long term view. And Allston is a long-term view,” Gordon says. “I mean, markets go up and down, donors go up and down, but I think she really gets the point that you have to stay the course.” —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...question that people must be helped immediately. Programs aimed at alleviating suffering and reinstating some semblance of normalcy are ongoing, but at a scale shaped entirely by the extreme limitations on the availability of goods. In this context of repressive occupation and heightened restriction, what does it mean to reconstruct Gaza? How is it possible under such conditions to empower people and build sustainable and resilient institutions able to withstand expected external shocks? Without an immediate end to Israel’s blockade and the resumption of trade and the movement of people outside the prison that Gaza has long...