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...appointed. The new Harvard Art Museum complex will be able to display more of the University’s collection than before, which Museum officials hope will attract more visitors, said spokesman Daron J. Manoogian. “Currently we are only able to display less than one percent of the collections,” he said. “We hope to create larger exhibition spaces.” Additionally, Manoogian hopes that putting the all the art collections in close proximity to each other will attract more visitors to the lesser-frequented Sackler Museum...
...foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution,” McCain protests, brandishing his American Conservative Union lifetime rating of 83 percent, compared to eight percent for Sen. Barack Obama. Still, conservatives charge insubordination: The maverick pulls his punches with his Democratic opponents, yet pummels his Republican allies. To win the Right’s trust, he must fight for it, not against...
...polar ice cap has shrunk by more than 20 percent since 1979. Over the past century, global temperatures have risen between 1.08 degress fahrenheit and 1.62 degress fahrenheit—a steep increase considering that during the last ice age the globe was only 9 degress fahrenheit to 15 degress fahrenheit cooler than today. Global warming has already caused sea levels to rise between four and eight inches, and experts predict that if the Greenland ice sheet melted, it would submerge significant parts of many coastal cities around the world , including nearby Boston...
World demand for energy is expected to rise by 54 percent in the next two decades. Undoubtedly, a large proportion of this rise in demand may be attributed to the rise of China and India; an estimated 61 percent of the expected rise in carbon dioxide emissions will be due to the developing world’s reliance on coal and fossil fuels. In fact, air pollution is even worse in developing Asia than it is in the United States. A brief walk through the streets of smog-ridden Bangalore can leave a healthy individual coughing within a matter...
...notoriously thankless brief. Her presence gave the ministry a credibility and visibility it had previously lacked, and she did well to slash deforestation to the same level as it had been in the early 1990s, and to convince Lula to set aside 12 million hectares as protected areas, 50 percent more than the previous government...