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...than 1% of Britons, for example, have switched their home electricity to renewable sources, even though it requires little more than a phone call to one's existing provider (I should know - I did it last week). Proportions on the Continent are slightly higher, but there's clearly no rush to go green or - shudder - stop driving cars. Why such a disconnect between information and action? Part of the problem is that environmental advocates emit mixed messages. In mid-May, Britain's Guardian published a front-page story showing that five companies in Britain produce more CO2 pollution...
...father of a Harvard junior was struck by a University shuttle in front of Dunster House Wednesday afternoon after he fell while loading his daughter’s belongings into their car. The student, Christine M. Fitzgerald ’07, said that her father, who was rushed to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is recovering well and was released from the hospital last night. “He’s actually now fine,” she said yesterday. “It was a pretty scary event, but he is pretty much just walking away with...
Mekonnen said that bystanders hurried over immediately. Within minutes, he said, an ambulance had arrived to rush the man to the hospital...
...boxes—already once-delayed in their arrival—were not ready for them. While the UC had promised a 10 a.m. opening of sales on Monday, by the time the boxes arrived in the late afternoon, crowds had swelled and tempers had flared. In the rush that ensued, the boxes were sold out within an hour. “Once they came, it was kind of a mad rush,” Leah M. Litman ’06 said of the late-arriving containers. Litman, a writer for campus blog Team Zebra, took up an offer...
...Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest Even surgical residents used to the heady rush of "codes" occasionally encounter emergencies that throw them for a total loop