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...College's social space. Most students seemed to have somewhere to go on their way through the Yard. Unless you count the ever-present revolving door of tourists as part of the College, this is definitely a small first step. Next stop, 45 Mt. Auburn...
...called, with more than 4,000 firefighters working the fire lines and an air fleet of 12 helitankers, seven helicopters and 11 airplanes - including a Boeing 747 and a DC-10 - pouring thousands of gallons of fire retardant on blazing hillsides. Only heroic work by firefighters saved the historic Mt. Wilson Observatory located 5,700 feet above Pasadena. (See pictures of this year's wildfires in California...
...development, held high-level meetings with the administration, and convened a Campaign Advisory Council of student groups and a Board of Advisors of faculty and alumni. At the same time, thanks to significant negotiations, the SCCC on the verge of finalizing a deal for the purchase of 45 Mt. Auburn St., an extraordinarily well-located parcel of real estate with great potential for expansion...
...news is bad. For example, running water will still be supplied to the Quad on weekends and to the Currier “Ten Man” on alternate Tuesdays. And we have specifically set aside funds for the completion of a new undergraduate student center on Mt. Auburn Street, to be finished in time for the College’s quadricentennial...
...forests and wildlife. And there are serious concerns that artificially changing cloud cover could disrupt global precipitation patterns, a risk that climate scientists Susan Solomon and Gabriele Hegerl raised in a recent article in Science. They found a global drop in precipitation levels after the eruption at Mt. Pinatubo, and an increase in droughts. A cool but dry planet wouldn't be an upgrade from where we are now. "Climate change impacts are driven not only by temperature changes, but also by change in other aspects of the climate system, such as precipitation and climate extremes," they write...