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Dressed as energy-inefficient Ford vehicles, members of Harvard’s Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) went door to door in various Houses and Yard dorms Wednesday evening, seeking through preemptive “reverse trick-or-treating” to raise student awareness of alternative energy options and persuade Ford to make these options available in their most popular cars and trucks...
Sixteen trick-or-treaters, motoring through campus in groups of two, gave students bags of candy in exchange for their signatures on postcards to Ford asking that the company implement the national Sierra Club’s “Freedom Option Package,” a two-page proposal suggesting that manufacturers offer cars equipped with certain technologies designed to increase fuel efficiency...
...decided to join the regional effort to promote the Freedom Option Package at the suggestion of the Boston branch of the Sierra Club...
KILLED. RODDY SCOTT, 31, intrepid British freelance journalist and cameraman who chose a hazardous career documenting neglected conflicts in such places as Sierra Leone, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ethiopia; by a bullet in the eyepiece of his camera while filming a firefight between Chechen rebels and Russian troops; in Ingushetia. Russian forces discovered Scott's body among dozens of dead Chechen rebels...
...were barred - and rebels allegedly led by General Robert Gue?, who headed a successful 1999 coup, was ousted by Gbagbo in 2000 and shot dead three weeks ago, one of this uprising's early fatalities. The violence - which the government has also blamed on neighboring Burkina Faso, Liberia and Sierra Leone - has left more than 300 dead and the country divided between rebels in the north and the government in the south. Worried that an implosion in Ivory Coast could destabilize the region, a group of West African leaders put a 2,500-man intervention force on standby as they...