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...maintains all of its properties. Instead of using synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, the gardeners now employ the natural organisms and processes of the soil for nourishment and replenishment. This change avoids the harmful effects of chemicals while also reducing the use of irrigation, saving two million gallons of water a year. In addition, the new growing methods have turned around the health of plants afflicted with serious diseases, such as the orchards at Elmwood, which were suffering from leaf spot and apple scab...
Harvard’s grass initiative is not only helping preserve the environment but also cutting unnecessary costs. The savings from reduced water usage and from composting the grass clippings, branches, leaves, and other material that used to have to be transported off campus amounts to $35,000 a year. In addition, now that Harvard is composting its own materials, it no longer has to buy fertilizers, saving another $10,000 a year. In a time of budgetary constraints for colleges throughout the country, not to mention our nation as a whole, Harvard is continually demonstrating that reducing our environmental...
...debate moved into the waters off Taiwan this spring when experts went out to collect data to better understand why the Chichi quake happened. The Marcus G. Langseth, owned by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by the Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (L-DEO), scouted underground formations for almost four months around Taiwan this spring, during which the crew popped its 36 airguns in the water every 20 or 60 seconds, depending on the instruments used to record the acoustic waves. Airguns, which are towed underwater at the back of the ship, cause loud, explosive...
...made his feature-film debut with Knife in the Water, a psychological thriller about a couple who invite a hitchhiker aboard their yacht. It won the Venice Film Festival International Critics Award of 1962 and was nominated for a 1964 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
...Polanski made the Holocaust drama The Pianist, starring Adrien Brody. The first film he had shot in Poland since Knife in the Water, it won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor, the Palme d'Or, in 2002, and the Academy Award for directing in 2003. Polanski did not attend the Academy Awards ceremony because he faced arrest upon setting foot...