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...Barack Obama took office, he has emphasized the importance of dealing with climate change. He's said that the right way to do it is to pass congressional legislation that would cap greenhouse-gas emissions. But eight months after the House of Representatives passed a cap-and-trade bill, similar legislation remains mired in the Senate, its chances of passage dimming by the day. With midterm elections not far off - threatening serious losses in Democratic seats in Congress - it's reasonable to wonder whether the carbon-capping bill will ever become...
What complicated efforts to end Kirkland overflow housing in DeWolfe in the past was the allocation of funds to the Houses, according to Stallings. Stallings said that a reduction in the number of residents could spell a similar reduction in funds—a problem that Kirkland already faces as one of the smaller Houses...
Historically similar cases have settled rather than gone to trial, Mason said. He suggested that monetary compensation might go to an appropriate public interest group or organization, rather than being distributed among all of Gmail’s users, but declined to estimate the amount of compensation sought by the plaintiffs...
This impersonal introduction has several key advantages that must be explored. Having similar academic interests, living in the same dorm, or hailing from the same geographical region all provide the foundations for a budding friendship. Fledgling amity is almost always in desperate need of commonalities around which conversation can be sustained. A shared interest in “folk and myth” or “that new major…you know, the stem cell one” can lead to a prolonged discussion of class selection and Q ratings. Residence in the same dorm can spark listing...
...matches, Harvard managed to take the lead by winning the first set, but it eventually fell in four games. Crimson freshman Zeke Scherl took the first game, 11-9, but dropped the next three to lose the match. Junior Eliot Buchanan, Ahmed, and Ma were also bested in a similar fashion...