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Perhaps Harvard should embrace global warming. Weather could become one of Cambridge’s major selling points. While Duke languishes amidst newly intensified tropical storms, Harvard will enjoy 70-degree weather in January. Who would ever want to go anywhere else? Polar ice caps may melt, but it was, after all, a Harvard graduate who reminded us that “a rising tide lifts all boats...
...rendering plants," Ament said Thursday night. "We want to haul as many as possible as soon as possible so we don't waste the meat." A meeting of state and local officials was scheduled on Friday to discuss how to handle all the carcasses. As the snows melt and more frozen animals are discovered, it is anticipated that long trenches will be dug in which to bury all the dead...
...airport, immersed in audioblur. I can almost make out what CNN is murmuring (the Arctic or maybe Iraq will melt by 2040); almost make out what a teenager with studs in her lips is whining into her cellphone (is there such a term, among young people, as "shazbot"?); almost make out the announcement of what is causing the latest extension of our flight delay (either "weather" or "whatever"). The people in the news and the people droning and losing their minds around me here are beginning to run together...
...microwave plastic containers used for cold food storage - they often melt and warp, because they are not designed to withstand the high heat of microwaving. Avoid microwaving food in freezer cartons or on Styrofoam trays...
...done nothing but circle the harbor of low-Earth orbit since 1972 - losing 14 astronauts to accidents in the process - hardly seems likely to pull off something so daring, especially when it's got an 18-year deadline in which funding and governmental enthusiasm for the project could easily melt away...