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Environmental activist William E. McKibben ’82 implored Harvard affiliates this week to recognize the imminent dangers of climate change and push for an international cap on carbon emissions.“In this past year, this has gone from ‘This is a big problem’ to ‘This is a big freaking emergency,’” McKibben said at one of a series of campus talks. “Climate change is happening on a way faster and a much larger scale than we thought it would...
...first glance, the aims of a movement to lower the drinking age might seem to be entirely disparate from the goals of a push to tighten drinking laws. But, recently, two campaigns with different aims have addressed a common problem: the poor state of drinking laws in the U.S. The Amethyst Initiative is a petition from university presidents that criticizes the current national drinking age of 21. Another group, All-Wisconsin Alcohol Risk Education (AWARE), is led by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and supports reforming Wisconsin’s notoriously lax drinking laws. While...
...kind of followed the pretty standard progression as far as not doing much as a freshman, sophomore getting in there a little bit, junior trying to push it a bit more, being more constant, and senior a little more,” Ajayi says. “But you know I value every aspect of everything over the course of my career...
...mean, I do get satisfied. I do get my fill in a day, I get tired and want to go home and sleep or eat, but the next day if the waves are happening, I'm out there again. It's not something that necessarily gets old. You push yourself to a certain limit and once you've done something new you've want to keep going, you want to do something further. I surf, I walk, I sleep. It's that much a part of my life. In that way it's very addictive...
...last year made a combined $37.4 million - also refused to give up their annual salaries. All the while, the trio, rounded out by Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli, proclaimed their innocence for the mess their companies are in, laying the blame largely on an unprecedented credit crunch that has helped push car and truck sales to their lowest level in 25 years...