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...aims to facilitate student ride-sharing opened around midnight this morning, less than a week after some UC representatives responded to student criticism with a call to dissolve the initiative. The new service uses the Web interface at UCRides.org in conjunction with text messaging to help students arrange joint transport to and from common destinations such as Logan airport and New York City. “The goal is to get people to the airport as quickly and cheaply as possible,” said Tom D. Hadfield ’08, who sponsored the original UC Rides legislation...
...began negotiations with the University in December 2003 for the return of the bells. Talks stalled over the costs of sending the bells to Russia and the purchase of their replacements, which the University was unwilling to pay. Last September, however, a Russian metals mogul offered $1 million to transport the bells to Moscow and to finance their replacements. According to the Danilov Monastery’s website, the return of the bells represents “the restoration of historical truth in relation to the Russian faithful.” “As a scholar of religion...
...unanimously and with little discussion, but yesterday’s UC meeting was not bereft of contention. Subject to debate was last week’s legislation in support of the “UC rides” program, which was passed to facilitate the arrangement of collective student transport to Logan airport. The council’s support of the program sparked e-mails condemning the use of UC funding for such a venture. The discontent caused Mather UC representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08—by means of an obscure constitutional rule of order?...
...reverse the damage. They also identify the problem with the Pearl River Delta, saying 80% of emissions come from across the border with China. Yet new research shows that about half the time, most of Hong Kong's air pollution comes from local sources. Cleaning up our road transport, shipping and power generation will make an enormous difference. Otherwise, there will be a toll on public health, and taxpayers will end up paying for rising medical costs. The government's first step, long overdue, is to adopt the World Health Organization's global air-quality guidelines and make them...
...enough to wipe out 30 million bison. Humans played a big role. By 1700 Native Americans were riding horses, which allowed them to kill prey much more efficiently than by approaching on foot, as they had done for the previous 9,000 years. Steam power allowed for the cheap transport of bison hides, and in the 1870s tanners learned to make useful leather from them. Demand soared, and the new Sharps "buffalo rifle" allowed hunters to meet that demand. The last significant bison hunt ended in 1883, when there were almost none left...