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...Keep Indonesia in mind as the world digests the third and final chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest assessment on global warming, which was released last week in Bangkok. While the first two sections made for depressing reading-nailing down the scientific basis for global warming and laying out nightmare scenarios of the havoc climate change could wreak-the last chapter is comparatively optimistic. Drawing on the work of thousands of scientists vetted by officials from over 100 countries, the IPCC reported that future carbon emissions could be controlled using current technology like nuclear...
This was the first supercyclone to dominate the news since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecast bigger and more ferocious storms due to global warming. Was there a message in that? True, twisters are not as easily tied to climate change as hurricanes are. But any big storm can serve as a test of the nation's ability to respond to sudden shocks. Clearly, we're still far from acing that test...
...Keep Indonesia in mind as the world digests the third and final chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest assessment on global warming, which was released Friday morning in Bangkok. While the first two sections made for depressing reading - nailing down the scientific basis for global warming and laying out nightmare scenarios of the havoc climate change could wreak - the last chapter is comparatively optimistic. Drawing on the work of thousands of scientists vetted by officials from over 100 countries, the IPCC reported that future carbon emissions could be controlled using current technology like nuclear...
...Israeli military official during the 2006 Lebanon war, currently a student at a Harvard Business School program for experienced executives, has come under withering criticism from an Israeli panel for his conduct during the war. Dan Halutz, who resigned as chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces in February, was harshly reproached in the preliminary report of a commission led by retired judge Eliyahu Winograd. “The chief of staff failed in his duties as commander in chief of the army and as a critical part of the political-military leadership, and exhibited flaws in professionalism, responsibility...
...accredited and talented, I wanted to take this opportunity in my senior year to bring them to visit Harvard,” she said. Christine K. L. Bendorf ’10, who has acted and produced in Harvard shows, expressed her satisfaction with the night’s panel. “It’s great to see professionals come to Harvard who aren’t involved solely in the performing aspect,” Bendorf said, “because it reminds all of us in the theater community here that there is more...