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...Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged world leaders to confront the looming water-shortage crisis [Feb. 11]. He should instead urge them to grapple with the underlying cause: overpopulation. While it is admittedly a very sensitive topic for social, religious and personal reasons, it is worth debating. Overpopulation is the root cause of poverty, war and almost every other problem. In a few short years, 9 billion people will inhabit this shrinking earth. If leaders continue to bury their heads in the sand at the mere mention of the subject, the resulting problems and suffering will affect many generations...
Total lunar eclipses occur when the sun, earth, and moon are in perfect alignment, an event that won’t occur again until 2010, according to NASA. The last lunar eclipse was on August 28th...
...event was organized via e-mail by Daniel A. Handlin ’11, who noted that many people were attracted to the observatory by word of mouth and by CNN reports of the eclipse. According to Handlin, who is also a Crimson news writer, the moon was tinted red because of atmospheric disturbance. Clouds prevented the sight from being crystal clear, but Handlin said that the visibility was “better than I thought it would...
...dark, crowded room on the tenth floor of the Science Center last night, students took turns looking through a telescope at an uncommon sight: the moon darkened rust-red by the shadow of the earth...
...happening so fast,” said Robin W. Reinert ’10, who could not remember the last time she saw a lunar eclipse. She added, “I’m surprised that the part that’s left is brighter than when the moon is in a crescent...