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...Andre V. Moura '03, an organizer of the council's busing efforts, said the council negotiated a special price with the Brush Hill Transportation bus company due to the large volume of business...
Pforzheimer is planning to subsidize part of the cost of the trip for its residents out of House funds, according to Henry. Other House committees are also considering this, Moura said...
...improve the current state of ENSO forecasting, Scripps and Lamont-Doherty have set up an international research institute dedicated to predicting medium-range swings in climate. Already, says climatologist Antonio Moura, the director, he and other scientists have begun to produce experimental forecasts of the probable impact of the ENSO cycle on selected regions. Thus rice, corn and bean farmers in northeast Brazil, say, could, if adequately forewarned, mitigate the effect of El Nino-associated droughts by planting rapidly maturing varieties of seed. The only hitch is that if they switch and a drought does not occur, their crop yields...
...Hall and others like to think of the current ENSO cycle as a kind of dress rehearsal for the sort of decision-making we could face in the coming century if, as many scientists anticipate, the planet heats up from the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As Moura puts it, "If we don't know how to react to El Nino, how can we react intelligently to something that is far less tangible...
...guiding principle, says David M. Moura of the University Wine Shop, is that Harvard students will buy "whatever is on special...