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...commitment was twofold—reduce Harvard’s own greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from 2006 baseline levels within the next decade and peg sustainability as a research and teaching priority...
...very hard to peg the exact costs of any given form of electricity due to the difficulty of estimating the environmental costs of carbon emissions, but depending on how one tabulates carbon-emission costs and subsidies for solar and wind, nuclear energy is either about equivalent in cost or significantly cheaper than any other form of energy...
...wouldn’t peg him as a cop except when I see him with other cops,” McLoughlin says. “He might as well have a uniform on. They love...
...week that he wanted to double U.S. exports over the next five years and challenged China to adopt a "market-oriented exchange rate" for its currency, the renminbi. But the policies that Wen was criticizing are in many respects what China has pursued for years. The renminbi has been pegged against the dollar since mid-2008, and overseas economists say the currency may be undervalued by as much as 40%. Trade is a key component of economic growth for China, the world's largest exporter, and the government is wary of any sort of collapse that could contribute to unemployment...
...Volvo 544, one of the first cars with a shoulder belt. It hung on a little peg behind you. I was on my way to work, and I realized I didn't have my [seat] belt on. So I was reaching around to get the damn belt off the peg when I bumped a curb and hit a telephone pole. The Volvo was totaled. I got a fairly--forgive me, man, but if this is your best work--untalented surgeon. That's what I needed: more asymmetry in my face...