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...brave a five-minute walk across the Square—scarves and gloves encouraged—or a one-stop trip on the T, several local spots will provide tastier alternatives to HUDS meatloaf. In an effort to discourage the bah humbugs of wintry weather, FM has braved the elements to give you the low-down on affordable comfort food in the area. Button up your peacoat and get moving...
Besides the new sign colors (and the bad weather), this miserable December day was hard to distinguish from the same day any other year. Campaigns for the two highest offices of the council have always stuck to posters to get their messages out. Beyond poster drops, door-to-door visits from candidates, websites of varying degrees of slickness and a lot of screaming outside of the Science Center, these campaigns have long seemed reluctant to adopt more creative measures—use of a yellow bird outfit in the 2003 campaign of Aaron S. Byrd ’05 aside...
...most recently an eight nation group called the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment—mostly agree that the release of carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere has caused a greenhouse effect like never before, resulting in not only increased temperatures, but also in increased frequency of extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts...
...whether or not one believes that our current energy supply is detrimental to the weather, the effects of burning coal and oil are felt at home, and in our lungs, every day. The stuff that comes out of power plant smokestacks has contributed to make asthma one of the fastest growing childhood ailments in industrial and developing countries alike, and has also recently been linked to lung cancer. Here in Massachusetts, where five power plants burn thousands of tons of coal every year, the effects on surrounding communities are significant. A 2000 study by the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Rescue efforts were made almost impossible by blocked roads, washed-out bridges and the storms that succeeded Winnie. (President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo tried visiting Real by helicopter on Wednesday but had to cancel her trip because of the bad weather.) In Real, a three-story building at a beach hotel complex that was being used as an evacuation center collapsed, killing 114 and leaving 150 missing. Soldiers slogged through mud to deliver body bags and lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. In the province of Rizal, the Quizan family's house was flooded with water, but Roberto Quizan...