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...Faust and Menino, Daniel P. Schrag, an earth and planetary sciences professor and the director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment, spent his speech describing the increasing atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the ensuing accelerated rate of Arctic ice melting, and the global repercussions of higher sea levels...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust, Menino Call for Climate Action | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...need is a lot of sun, a lot of space and a lot of mirrors - and NS1 has all of the above. 182,000 parabolic mirrors are spread over 400 acres of flat desert, creating a glistening sea of glass visible from miles away. Up close they're shaped like shallow satellite dishes, chasing the sun's movement as it passes through the sky. On the cloudy day I visited, the plant was running at less than full capacity, and some of the mirrors were turned downwards to block the force of the wind, which had the glass vibrating. Although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thermal Power Heats Up Nevada | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s lacrosse team sunk the Stony Brook Sea Wolves, 9-6, in a tight game with a memorable third-period surge led by sophomores on a damp Saturday afternoon at Jordan Field. “We had a lot more enthusiasm today,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “We could have taken a step back last week after losing, but I think the guys stepped up and it showed a lot about their character.” Last time the teams met, Harvard walked away with a 13-8 loss...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Avenges Last Season’s Loss by Downing Sea Wolves | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...biological piracy, richly recounted in Joe Jackson's astounding The THIEF AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Viking; 432 pages), "handed Britain the first worldwide monopoly of a strategic resource in human history." And Wickham? He got a pittance for his trouble and went off to farm sea slugs in the Conflict Islands, the quintessential Victorian sad sack: ignorant, incompetent, indomitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rubber, Sold | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...ARCHAEOLOGY 150 million Age, in years, of a fossilized sea creature known as a pliosaur, discovered recently on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, where at least 40 other fossils await excavation 15 Estimated size in meters (49 feet) of a pliosaur from nose to tail. Its jaws were large enough to chomp a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

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