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Aside from the ecological benefit, Gould said recycling helps the economy. Recycling saves trash disposal costs, creates jobs for the local economy and contributes to material and energy conservation. For instance, Harvard must pay $86 per ton for trash disposal, but gets paid $25 per ton of paper recycled...
...said greater recycling by the Harvard community would reduce University expenditures, as Harvard pays $86 to dispose each ton of trash...
...mayor ought to remember that when the 15-ton bronze scuplture was toppled and carried off in August 1991—during a three-day coup that heralded the final demise of the Soviet Union—grateful bystanders whistled, cheered and applauded. As Princeton University professor Kathryn Stoner-Weiss observed last month in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, “The fall of Iron Felix was a bold declaration that KGB repression would have no role in Russia’s democratic future...
...Coach [Mazzoleni] has four children, so it’s tough for him to get away from his house,” Leaman said. “Ninety-five percent of the recruiting is up to Sean and me. That’s a ton of responsibility...
...only to scholars. If you’re one of those professors writing only to colleagues, “you’re lucky if a thousand people know your book,” Early says. “But Mr. West will write a book and sell a ton of copies. I feel the university needs both types of people...