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...looking back about 125,000 years, to a time when global temperatures were as high as they are expected to be by 2100, a team of scientists from Princeton and Harvard universities has calculated that the oceans were probably at least 26 ft. higher than they are now, maybe as much as 31 ft. higher. That's significantly higher than the 13-ft.-to-19-ft. range scientists have been counting on, and it is, write Peter Huybers of Harvard and Peter Clark of Oregon State University in an accompanying commentary in Nature, "a disconcerting message...
...only about the bills. It's also a matter of pride. Columbia economics professor Sally Davidson is quoted in the article as saying, “In addition, Columbia’s peers—Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT all have AAA ratings—does Columbia want to drop below this group? Probably...
...fight broke out at around 1:20 a.m. two Saturdays ago at a dance hosted by the Princeton Caribbean Connection, a club that promotes Caribbean culture whose Web site still links to "thefacebook.com." Tensions ran high, though we're not sure why (Maybe something to do with hedge funds? Just saying), and around 20 people started trading blows...
...Public Safety officers at the scene tried to calm the situation, but they couldn't, and it took a Princeton Borough police officer who was in the area to unleash the wrath of pepper spray onto the crowd. Soon, around 24 cops were at the scene to clear the area...
University officials seem to suspect that outsiders were involved with the fight, which makes sense since Princeton kids aren't that good at all things physical. But Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne assured the campus that the altercation was a "rare occurrence" that was "an abberation and not the norm at social events sponsored by student organizations...