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...shown Harvard that concrete can be green, and that it has no reason to fear the Currier tree. This past weekend, Mather won the Green Cup in an eco-competition sponsored by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative and FAS Resource Efficiency Program. Mather broke Currier’s two-year winning streak by coming in fourth in recycling and waste reduction, first in electricity conservation, and tied for first in eco-projects. Dunster, Kirkland, and Leverett Houses also received mention for being the top three Houses in improvement in recycling and trash reduction. Mather, represented by Environmental Action Committee...
...annals of identity theft, this may be hard to beat: after a two-year investigation, Japanese electronics manufacturer NEC revealed last week that counterfeiters had effectively ripped off the company's entire brand. Factories in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were allegedly involved in a sophisticated piracy ring that produced around 50 different types of electronic equipment, including DVD and MP3 players, which the counterfeiters then hawked as NEC products. The pirates even went so far as to design their very own line of fake NEC goods. The fact that NEC hadn't designed them didn't stop irate buyers...
...rather a vote for effective human rights protection. The new Council is not an improvement from its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission. Other than where a country is located, there is not a single criterion for membership, and countries must rotate off the Council after a two-year term. Thus, the new organization merely ensures that human rights abusers will continue to occupy seats on the Council and that countries which value and protect human rights will lose their seats after two years. There is no hope for effective human rights protections from a body whose members include...
...When you take the job, you agree to it for three years," Ellwood said. He added that Schauer agreed to a two-year extension. And he said that Walt served an extra year to assist with the transition at the school’s helm. Ellwood became the KSG’s top administrator in the summer...
...bill provides for a guest-worker program but requires illegal immigrants to leave the U.S. before they apply for it. They must leave within five years; delaying departure cuts into their future U.S. stay. Those and any new immigrant laborers can apply for a two-year visa that can be renewed twice, with a one-year gap between renewals that must be spent outside the U.S. and a lifetime cap of six years. The visa offers no special path to permanent residency or citizenship. The bill doubles existing civil penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants and authorizes the addition...