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...think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need. That's what's interesting to me - how adaptable the human organism is. I train intensively. I built the pillar in the desert in California a year before I actually did it, and I spent months on end climbing up the pillar every day, standing up there, hanging out up there and getting comfortable and jumping down into cardboard boxes and airbags and getting used to jumping down 100 feet continuously and getting used...
...charge is not as simple as reducing Harvard’s physical climate footprint. Nor can it presume to lead just by being the first mover; many other institutions, cities, states and even countries have already stood up to address this issue head on. Instead, the task force must recommend a strategy that pushes the limits of what these other actors have realized. We must reduce our emissions more quickly, more cleverly and more comprehensively than those who have come before us. In showing what can be done, we make it a requirement of any responsible institution to do likewise...
...University will convene an advisory committee charged with recommending changes to Harvard’s physical infrastructure in Cambridge, University President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday. Citing “the need for additional spaces for cultural, recreational, and social activities for the Harvard community,” Faust instructed the committee to plan beyond recent campus construction such as the Lamont Library Café and the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. Her charge to the committee gave no budgetary details or suggestions for specific projects, but committee co-chair Lizabeth Cohen—who will also take...
...unless a ship has navy support lurking just beyond the horizon, a traditional swashbuckling firefight is a bad idea. "Today I wouldn't dare recommend to anyone to arm themselves to fight pirates," said Edwin Mast, a former captain and current nautical technical consultant. "In the old days when they had knives and sticks, yes. But today they have machine guns...
...those having twins or triplets as a result of in vitro fertilization and America's exploding obesity epidemic--all of which increase the risks of vaginal delivery. Doctors are also becoming better at picking up the slightest signs of distress in the baby or mother and are quicker to recommend caesareans in such cases...