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...Lowell House will receive newly molded bells from the Vera Bell Foundry in Voronezh, Russia, which was hand-picked from five foundries that University representatives surveyed last August. The delegation—consisting of Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91, project manager Peter Riley, and Lowell House tutor Luis A. Campos—visited the foundry last week to inspect the casts for the replacement bells. The group also attended several ceremonies over the weekend and is expected to return March 21. According to Buffington, the delegation hopes to sign an agreement before...
...year until 2019 to maintain its water infrastructure, according to one Congressional Budget Office study--that's almost twice the $21.6 billion invested in 1999. "We've got thick pipes from the 19th century becoming obsolete at the same time as thinner ones laid after World War II," says Peter Cook, executive director of the National Association of Water Companies. "If we don't invest more, we're going to face a real crisis...
Since then Queensland Premier Peter Beattie declared such recycling mandatory. It's already standard practice in Namibia and Singapore and in cities like London, which draw much of their water from rivers where treated sewage has been dumped upstream. Queasiness is a luxury no one can either afford or justify, since purification technology can handle stuff the coddled minds of suburbia cannot. "Even wastewater is at least 99% water," says Bruce Durham, Veolia's alternative-resources manager. "What matters isn't its history but its quality...
...current Rhodes scholar Peter P.M. Buttigieg ’04, though, who answered affirmatively when he asked himself whether he wanted “to spend two years in a rainy country doing academic work in a quirky, ancient institution,” the possibility of his having gotten a “raw deal” never arose; the small annoyances associated with Oxford have not impacted his experience. He indicated, in an e-mail, a faith in the ability of high-achieving university students to maintain a balanced perspective: “When...
...future, only then would we ask Harvard to divest from this class of investments. We applaud the Boston Foundation’s decision today to short (bet against) the stocks of companies who are doing business in Sudan, and would be supportive of Harvard doing the same. PETER GANONG ’09 Cambridge, Mass. March 14, 2007 The writer is a member of the Harvard Darfur Action Group...