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Explorers have been searching for the Northwest Passage-the legendary sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific-since the 16th century, but their way has always been blocked by ice. Global warming is changing that. The deterioration of the Arctic ice pack, which had been shrinking at the rate of 10% per year, is starting to accelerate. Last year?s ice covered the smallest area ever recorded, and scientists now estimate that the passage could be ice-free-for at least part of the year-by 2050, if not sooner...
Whether you’ve been plopped down by the Square, sent northwest to the frontier that is the Quad or exiled to the far east that is Mather and Dunster, today, you’ve been blessed with a home. You may not be in the House of your dreams—the House that hot upperclassman you’ve been spying on lives in, or the House that’s closest to your favorite coffee shop—but a House is better than no House. You are no longer the houseless freshman you were yesterday...
...Cordeiro competed again on Sunday and were joined by captain Sloan Devlin and junior crew Christina Dahlman. Flynn and Nathanson also sailed again, helping Harvard pull out a third-place finish behind Boston College and Brown. As was the case on Saturday, the conditions were frigid, and a shifty northwest breeze caused a number of capsizes throughout the regatta. ST. MARY’S WOMEN’S INTERSECTIONAL The women were at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in a 15-team regatta on Saturday and Sunday, and, keeping with the theme of the weekend, the home...
...detritus of war and industry. To the southwest lies the Dugway Proving Ground, where the U.S. government develops chemical and biological weapons. To the east is one of the world's largest nerve-gas incinerators. To the north is a giant magnesium plant, a major polluter. To the northwest sit a hazardous-waste incinerator and a toxic-waste landfill. The tribe's only profitable business is a municipal garbage dump serving Salt Lake City...
...flexibility of simple churches is a huge plus. They can accommodate the demands of a multi-job worker, convene around the bedside of an ailing member and undertake big initiatives with dispatch, as in the case of a group in the Northwest that reportedly yearned to do social outreach but found that every member had heavy credit-card debt. An austerity campaign yielded a balance with which to help the true poor...