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...there have been hints that it was coming. The 2009 U.S. Climate Impacts Report found that large-scale cold-weather storm systems have gradually tracked to the north in the U.S. over the past 50 years. While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That's in part because of global warming - hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow. Colder air, by contrast, is drier; if we were in a truly vicious cold snap...
...November, the office of University Provost Steven E. Hyman released the report of the Task Force on University Libraries, which called for a restructuring of Harvard’s “labyrinthine” library system and charged the eight-member Library Implementation Group—stacked with library and University administrators—with the execution of the report’s recommendations over the coming year...
Divinity School Professor David C. Lamberth, the chair of the implementation group, said he is working with representatives from across the University to execute the administrative recommendations of the task force report. Lamberth is the only professor in the group who does not hold an administrative position in the libraries...
Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who called the process of electing a mayor "time consuming," said that the Boston Globe was unfair to report that Reeves—the former mayor of Cambridge who currently possesses only two votes—was impeding the progress of the election. Yesterday’s Globe article stated that some say Reeves is "holding up the process by not dropping out of the running...
...that it sells a high-concept unmanufactured product. It may be a little harder for a manufacturing company like Nike to make a similar move, given the fact that many such companies employ low-paid factory workers who earn pennies a day. For example, a 2008 National Labor Committee report called into question the new Sesame Street dolls, which were allegedly made under sweatshop conditions. Just recently, the NLC released a report on the abject conditions in a Reebok sweatshop in San Salvador. According to the report, workers are paid ten cents for each eighty-dollar jersey they make. Unfortunately...