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...risks of unabated climate change are frightening: A detailed new study from the University of California, Berkeley, predicts that severe warming could cost California alone up to $50 billion annually, due chiefly to weather damage. "We have to have the foresight to avoid this crash," says David Roland-Holst, a professor of economics at Berkeley and the author of the report. The question is: Do Obama - and other world leaders - possess that foresight...
...debt in the U.S. economy may bring self-reinforcing downward pressures that weren't an issue back in the relatively frugal 1950s. (When you've got lots of debt, like General Motors or your neighbor with an adjustable-rate mortgage, you're in a far worse position to weather a sudden reduction in income...
...away from the cutoff. This arbitrary cutoff date then has a real impact on the success of these students; at many colleges, Gladwell claims, students who are in the younger half of their age-class are underrepresented by more than 10 percent. But don’t worry, warm weather babies: a simple Harvard College Facebook search reveals that no birth month predominates among current undergraduates.While Gladwell’s theory might not predict Harvard’s demographics, he isn’t trying to advance a catch-all explanation for success. He’s not claiming that...
...there hasn’t been a prank in a few years, and I’m beginning to worry about the hack’s future. I understand Boston police cracking down on drinking, but a weather balloon popping out at midfield between plays never hurt anyone. I can guarantee there will be at least one fan at Harvard Stadium this year rooting for something beyond a mere victory over the Elis—awaiting the whimsical, funny gesture that has become a cherished part of my Game...
It’s a sign of the times that a panel on the financial crisis could draw 200 people to the Harvard Kennedy School in 25-degree weather. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz headlined a panel of financial experts in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday. He said that last weekend’s G20 summit was a welcome sight for the beleaguered global economy, even if it has yet to produce noticeable results. “It is very important that there was a G20 meeting, not G7, because the G7 [countries] are all bankrupt...