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Warner garnered 47 percent of the vote in his failed 1996 bid to unseat a popular Republican incumbent senator. “I got the silver medal in that race,” he quipped...
...cold war,” Feldstein wrote in an e-mail. Feldstein teaches Economics 2490, “The Economics of National Security,” and taught Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” for more than two decades. Weinberger received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 1987, the year he left the Defense Department.In 1992, Weinberger faced a federal indictment for lying to investigators in the Iran-Contra scandal under Reagan, but received a presidential pardon from President George H. W. Bush before his trial...
Zoologist David T. Suzuki told a packed Science Center B that humans are on “a suicidal path” as a species, as he accepted the 2006 Roger Tory Peterson Medal from the Harvard Museum of Natural History yesterday. Suzuki blamed unsustainable population growth and economic expansion for “shattering” the connection between humans and nature. Suzuki, author of more than 30 books, host of a popular nature television series, and honorary member of two Native American tribes, was presented with the Peterson award for his work in sustainable ecology and environmental advocacy...
...With the country celebrating its first-ever gold medal in a snow event at last month's Torino Olympics?courtesy of male aerial skier Han Xiaopeng?skiing has never been so cool in China. A decade ago, there was only one sizeable ski site in the entire country?Yabuli in northeastern Heilongjiang province?and that was built specifically to host the 1996 Asian Winter Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets...
...With the country celebrating its first-ever gold medal in a snow event at last month's Torino Olympics-courtesy of male aerial skier Han Xiaopeng-skiing has never been so cool in China. A decade ago, there was only one sizeable ski site in the entire country-Yabuli in northeastern Heilongjiang province-and that was built specifically to host the 1996 Asian Winter Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets...