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...staunchest environmental advocates. It was students who worked to ensure the 2004 adoption of the six guiding "Sustainability Principles" for the Allston development. Soon after, students passed a referendum that called for an optional wind-energy fee to be added to their term bills. Despite a prompt veto of the measure by the University administration, students voted green again in 2006, demanding emissions reduction targets for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) through another College-wide referendum...
...Harvard first years, and for one week get caught up in their enthusiasm and excitement. Every year, memories of the Elm Yard safety talk in September 2004—when the mere mention of Canaday sent my entryway into hysterics—will fade, with no new freshmen to prompt those memories of my own freshman year.And this makes me sad, because I really do love this place. For me, it’s not just Annenberg, or the sweep of the New Yard, or all the other obvious things to love about Harvard. What really gets...
...spearheading a federal task force, which includes the Commerce Department and Consumer Product Safety Commission, focusing on how to control the lead hazard in imported toys and other consumer products. In the meantime, Binns hopes that looking at toys will serve as "a good prompt to look at your entire home." Research shows that 2 out of 3 homes built before 1940 have lead in a hazardous condition...
...terrible equation of how hard Israel should strike back against Gaza when one of these homemade rockets brings death to Sderot. The collateral damage could include President George W. Bush's proposed Middle East peace summit in November, since a major Israeli strike against Gaza would inevitably prompt a stay-away by the moderate Arab states on whose support Washington is counting - Egypt, Jordan and possibly Saudi Arabia...
...install the Karzai government and has a longstanding hostility towards the Taliban. And Tehran has also been a vocal supporter of the Iraqi government, whose leaders have been historically close to Iran. In both cases, though, these governments fear that the strategic rivalry between Iran and the U.S. could prompt both sides to take actions that could provoke the other and prompt an escalation that negatively affect both Afghan and Iraqi stability. In other words, it's not Iran they fear, but an Iran-U.S. confrontation...