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...easy to mock Chameides's earnest habits, but his quest does highlight an environmental threat that rarely gets attention. Most Americans have now come to believe that littering on the street is wrong, but as Chameides says, just because you throw something out in a proper trashcan doesn't mean it simply disappears. Though America's landfills are in no danger of filling up any time soon, taking out the trash is increasingly costly, with major cities like New York now having to truck their garbage hundreds of miles to reach an open dumping space. That means energy and carbon...
...misfortune some months back of seeing in the flesh one of his grotesque works (a slaughterhouse on display to the public, really) at the base of Lever House, on the streets of Manhattan. Like Hirst, I'm amused by the affluent morons who feel compelled to throw their money at him for the monstrosities that his production lines seemingly roll out in copious quantities. Hirst himself appears to be a thoroughly tortured individual. He deserves that state, for the posthumous indignity to which he's subjected the wretched creatures who are the victims of his factory of horrors. Jonathan Tager...
...easy way of summing up Kim's life in one sentence would be to throw in the words reportedly, allegedly and the occasional is said to. So little is known for sure about him - and so widespread are the myths about him generated by Pyongyang's tireless propaganda machine -that the real story of North Korea's leader can be hard to divine. Thus, Kim's life starts with his birth either in Siberia - where his father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, was in exile - or on Mount Paektu, the highest point on the Korean Peninsula. In an early...
...modelers or mathematicians out of a job," she says, but still, "every time there's a shift in the landscape, we realize we have to enrich the models, make them more complete, more complex, and bring in some of the richness that the real world can throw at us." Indeed, on Sept. 16, at the request of students, Wharton faculty held a "teach-in" to examine the current financial crisis in the wider context of risk management, among other topics...
...Harvard’s momentum continued to mount through the third quarter, as sophomore safety Collin Zych silenced a Crusader red zone threat, intercepting Randolph’s pass in the end zone for a touchback. “I mean, that’s what Coach stresses, never throw picks in the end zone, never have turnovers in the end zone, and you just can’t do it,” Randolph said.Senior linebacker Eric Schultz quelled another Holy Cross red zone attempt at the Harvard 1-yard line. Finding a hole in the offensive line, Schultz...