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...Until yesterday, most experts thought global warming might make it happen in a couple of thousand years. Now they?re talking hundreds. It still sounds like a long time, but, says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton, "that comes to a couple of feet per century, and that?s more than society is equipped to handle." It doesn?t, moreover, take into account the two mammoth ice sheets of Antarctica, which pack about 20 and 200 feet of potential sea-level rise, respectively, if some new process is discovered that speeds their disintegration. Given what...
...Crimson argues that Harvard has to pay its managers as much as $18 million per year in order to achieve decent investment results. Why, then, can Yale achieve superior results with far lower compensation? Surely, Swenson could earn far more money if he left Yale. Similarly, Larry Summers could earn far more money if he left Harvard for the private sector, but Harvard does not, and should not, pay him tens of millions of dollars to retain his services...
...nutritional scientists at the New Jersey school found that three-quarters of the students gained weight in their first year. But the average weight-gain was seven pounds—less than half the much-feared 15, the researchers found. Students in the study consumed an extra 112 calories per...
...people asked then University President Derek C. Bok why he did not immediately shut the University down. According to Gomes, Bok responded, “I tried to, but I didn’t know how.” The storm, which The Crimson reported brought ninety-two miles per hour gusts of wind and dumped over a foot of snow in Harvard Yard, essentially locked down the entirety of Massachusetts for five days, Gomes said. It may provide some comfort to Harvard students that most other colleges in the Boston and Cambridge area have similar snow policies. Officials...
...living longer and more fulfilling lives. The debate can rage, but whether it’s the children of light or the children of darkness who emerge at the end of the line, Ben-Shahar will still be lecturing to over a thousand students per week...