Word: thanked
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...Thank you for raising the issue of global warming as it relates to hurricanes [Oct. 3]. The debate seems to focus on whether we have enough evidence that pollution is causing climate change to justify taking steps to reduce greenhouse gases. That standard is too high when the world is facing what might be catastrophic consequences. Even the possibility that human behavior is changing our climate should compel action. American attitudes toward environmental pollution are like our attitudes toward food: we keep shoving pollutants into the atmosphere with the same abandon that we shove junk food into our mouths, even...
...Thank you for correcting me, 2,200. You’re kind of like a blogger who arrived before his time. Do you read any blogs regularly...
...better to get done with her early. Several of my roommates recently discovered the joy of eating breakfast and “like having the whole day in front of you to do stuff rather than just the afternoon.” For this perhaps I should thank my lucky stars, but the fact that it takes three years to learn what parents have been saying for decades speaks poorly about the rationality of Harvard’s best and brightest. At the very least, the growing swarm of economics concentrators should be able to stem the staying-up-late...
...venturing into the stands to work the crowd. The show, Wylie said, “represents years and years of dedication on the part of the skaters.” The Evening’s founder, John Misha Petkevich ’71 stood up during the show to thank the audience and to remind them of the show’s goal to help fight childhood cancer. “To see young people here, who perhaps 30 years ago would not survive, this is the greatest gift of all,” he said during the performance. Nine...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson owes hiscolleague Michael Brown a big thank-you--and flowers wouldn't be a bad idea either. Back in 2000, Tyson, an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, triggered an international furor when he decreed that in his prestigious establishment Pluto would no longer be listed as a planet. Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years...