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...with your date in a dinghy. If you fall in, you’ll have to sit even closer to warm each other up. Harvard-Radcliffe Sailing Pavilion (495-3434), by MIT/Kendall on the Red Line and Community Boating (523-1038), just over the “Salt and Pepper Bridge,” both provide boats and instruction for a fee. Call ahead for details...
...nothing seen since the end of the last ice age, has dire consequences for thousands of species adapted to free-flowing water. Human alteration of the water cycle also extends underground as farms and cities overtax aquifers, sometimes irretrievably damaging these reservoirs of groundwater as the land subsides and salt water intrudes...
...need to store energy generated during gales for use when the air is still. The best way to do that, says Robert Williams, of Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, is to use the excess to compress air and force it into subterranean aquifers, caves or salt domes...
...area about half the size of Florida each year. Damage to intact forests, which occurs when they are broken up into isolated patches or partly logged, or when fires are set, threatens biodiversity still more. With other rich environments under similar assault, including coral reefs (two-thirds degraded) and salt marshes and mangrove swamps (half eliminated or radically altered), the extinction rate of species and races is everywhere rising...
...assertions being made about the disease-fighting capabilities of various foods and supplements," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "And most of those claims remain totally unsubstantiated by long-term studies." In that light, it's important to take every new proclamation about diet with a grain of salt, Smith continues. "Before we allow our hopes for disease prevention to run away with our common sense, we need to see hard evidence to support all the claims that are made...