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...likelihood of potentially hazardous results. While catastrophic injuries like Everett's remain rare, reports of concussions and other severe trauma on the football field are starting to pile up even at the high school and college level. In a study of high school and college football players published last summer, the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine found that between 1989 and 2002, on average of six players per year became quadriplegic after an injury on the field. Even more alarming was the cause of these catastrophic injuries - spear tackling. "Especially on a kickoff or punt return, the whole purpose...
...This summer, solar panels were installed on the roof of Cabot Science Library, and plans are now emerging for wind turbines on the roof of William James Hall. These projects are the most recent—and possibly the most prominent—example of the warm embrace that Harvard and other progressive-minded colleges have given alternative energy, and they are a first step—albeit almost laughably small—toward the dream of locally produced renewable energy...
...rate of emissions growth, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will double pre-industrial levels by 2056—likely with catastrophic effects, the beginnings of which we may be seeing now in the form of polar ice caps that expand less every winter and thaw further every summer...
...Artists Agency, I’m confident that the entertainment industry is where I’m bound. But I occasionally still have a small feeling in my gut that this Paris-obsessed world is superficial. Yet the political world didn’t seem much better after a summer with the Justice Department last year. Call me crazy, but discussing the intricacies of which Senator is screwed (or screwing) doesn’t bring the same excitement as when my father and I can debate the merits of shows like “The Wire?...
...quality of a society’s arts and entertainment has always been hugely significant. From the times of Aristophanes to Shakespeare to Scorsese, a good society is one that’s well entertained. This summer Werner Herzog’s “Rescue Dawn” and the documentary on the war in Iraq “No End in Sight” reminded me of the power of film. One is a quietly methodical saga of a prisoner of war and the other is a bare-knuckles portrayal of just how much our government screwed...