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...bets related to climate change has proliferated in other financial markets, too. With amateur and professional investors alike growing more concerned about global warming, financial institutions are finding a myriad of ways to cash in. A whole host of new indices, funds and esoteric instruments have been created to meet their needs. Some, for example, offer ways for investors to ride the long-term growth of sectors such as renewable energy, waste management and Arctic shipping; others bundle and package climate-change risk so it can be traded like platinum or pork bellies by hedge-fund speculators...
...white photograph of unidentified soldiers during Pearl Harbor. “The picture means a lot to me because I am a pretty patriotic person,” said Tennant. “It also reflects my desire to really understand my family and random people that I meet. I want to know what makes them tick, what they love about their lives.” This eager and unassuming friendliness has characterized Tennant’s past four years at Harvard, whether it be as the vice president of the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), the captain...
...permission to use the space, and get clearance from Harvard University Police Department before takeoff. Mark Van Baalen, a lecturer in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said he was excited to see a revived interest in aviation at Harvard. Since the school organized the first Harvard Air Meet at Squantum Point in 1923, there were a lot of attempts to reincarnate the Harvard Flying Club that has been around in one form or another since the 1920s, according to Van Baalen, who received his pilot’s license in 1969. “[Reviving an aviation club...
...policies that pertain to faculty pertain to all faculty.” Jones also cited a difference in tenure policy as a potential cause for the differences. “At Stanford, every faculty member who is hired has a tenured position waiting for them if they meet the requirements,” she said. Despite the results of the study, some junior faculty members said they are pleased with their Harvard experience. “I couldn’t be happier here at Harvard,” said assistant professor in government Eric Beerbohm in an e-mailed...
...wheels of international governance grind slow. It takes 190-plus countries a long, long time to agree on anything. So it can sometimes seem, in the torpid heat of Bali, that the calls for action will go unheeded, that we'll never get our act together in time the meet the demands of science, which call for a peak on global carbon emissions to be reached within a decade or so, followed by rapid reductions. That we'll conference ourselves to death...