Word: weatherization
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...role of human-caused climate change in spawning the disasters is simply asserted more often than it's convincingly demonstrated. Critics have huffed that the report features more guesswork than science, ridiculing one calculation that factors in the frequency of earthquakes to determine global warming's impact on weather disasters (the authors do concede a "significant margin of error"). Specifics aside, the report is doubtless intended to haunt world leaders as they gather in Copenhagen later this year to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. If its chilling claims are even partly true, the report should be read...
...thinking of the union leadership has shifted considerably over the past five months—from optimism that members could weather the fiscal storm without suffering too many ill effects, to sober recognition that sacrifices will have to be made to bring the University back into the black. “We were more hopeful originally that any changes in the staffing pattern or reductions would be incremental or spotty,” Jaeger says. “But it’s become clear in the past few months, it’s worse than that...
...total. The Graduate School of Education will confer 597 degrees. The School of Dental Medicine will confer 65 degrees in total. The Divinity School will award 188 degrees. The School of Design will award 209 degrees. The Extension School will confer a total of 605 degrees. The National Weather Service predicts mostly cloudy skies with a high of 68 for this morning’s ceremonies. —Staff writer Cara K. Fahey can be reached at cfahey@fas.harvard.edu...
...only struggled to make ends meet in an unprecedented fiscal crisis, but it has also reined in its visionary—and what some have criticized as financially irresponsible—plans to construct a new campus across the Charles. In November, Faust wrote that Harvard would weather the market turmoil by “staying true to our academic values and our long-term ambitions.” But just three months later, she cited the University’s “collective obligation to face the situation with the right balance of short-term focus and long...
...servant who will help keep us safe and keep our sacred trust with our soldiers," Obama said. While McHugh's blood-red district is generally considered safe terrain for the GOP - McHugh carried the 23rd with 65% of the vote in 2008 - the party will nonetheless be forced to weather a special election for one of just three House seats held by Republicans out of New York's delegation...