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...benefits of comprehensive climate-change legislation are undeniable, no matter what its detractors say. Unfortunately, the policy institutes that conduct research demonstrating the benefits of Waxman-Markey do not have a voice that can match the public claims of naysayers. In the din over the health-care debate, it is difficult for their reports to reach the public or the ears of policymakers, while opponents continue to work through lobbyists to weaken the bill. If the U.S. is to have a meaningful climate-change policy, policymakers cannot weaken the House bill any further. The Obama administration must take a leadership...
...Does it seem fair?” Smith said. “I’m not just going to stand up here and say ‘this person’s work, that person’s work’...Everyone, as far as I’m concerned, across the FAS is working harder these days because of the situation we find ourselves in. [I could not] compare one person’s situation to another person’s situation...
...laboratory that conducted experiments on mice, and investigators found her body stuffed in the basement wall of a facility that housed research animals. Clark works in the lab as a technician. Authorities had been tightlipped since Le was reported missing, just a few days before her wedding day. Police say they have ruled out her fiancee, a Columbia University graduate student, as a suspect but have provided little additional information. Officials had promised Tuesday to release an autopsy report that would shed light on exactly how Le died. But then prosecutors blocked release of the results out of concern that...
...painful, and prevalent, which makes it a difficult topic to discuss. Therefore, issues of consent tend to be avoided, distorted, or completely silenced. So if the only introduction to the issue of sexual assault freshmen received was “Sex Signals,” then perhaps some could say that rape was not treated with enough “gravity,” that there were not enough facts, that it was not Harvard-centric enough, and that there was not enough time for discussion. But “Sex Signals” is only a beginning. By turning...
...Clickers, blogs, and even Google’s Android cell phone are all showing up in classrooms across Harvard’s campus. But many Harvard professors say that though the days of internet-free classrooms may be long over, nothing will replace face to face interactions in the classroom that are the foundation of Harvard’s Cambridge-style education model. According to a recent article in the New York times, institutions are becoming more and more willing to pour scarce dollars into interactive technologies for the classroom. Online institutions like the University of Pheonix, Devry, and even...