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...Davis said. Several residents referred to Meyers’ death when expressing their general concerns about pedestrian safety during the public comment session of the meeting. They attributed the danger associated with crossing the street to the poor design and upkeep of intersections, especially during inclement weather, Councillor Craig A. Kelley also said that the city could take more actions to ensure pedestrian safety. “We’re not taking traffic management as seriously as we should,” he said. Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 agreed that the intersection of Mass...
...dining halls to tossing out our trash (which goes via train to a landfill in South Carolina)—result in the emission of greenhouse gases. In aggregate, these emissions help cause the average temperature of our planet to rise, which in turn causes a major change in weather patterns. The effects of climate change are real. The most dramatic effects include stronger storms that destroy coastal cities such as New Orleans, rapidly receding glaciers, spring arriving earlier, and invasive species moving into new, warmer areas. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “The world...
When MIT professor and meteorologist Edward Lorenz realized in 1961 that long-term weather-forecasting was all but impossible, the discovery chagrined weathermen. But his underlying idea--that even the most minute aberrations could have vast repercussions on larger systems--gave birth to the modern field of chaos theory. He captured the public's imagination with the elegant concept in a 1972 paper titled "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Though Lorenz initially used a seagull as his example, he settled on the more poetic creature, giving rise...
...Jeremiah Wright's black-nationalist sermons had their roots in the black-power movement that corrupted Martin Luther King Jr.'s "beloved community." The sprouting of flag pins on the lapels of politicians was a response to the flag-burning of antiwar protesters; the violence of Weather Underground members like William Ayers, with whom Obama was said to be "friendly," was a corruption of the peace movements as well. All of these occurred before Obama reached puberty - and they helped define the social atmosphere in academic communities like Chicago's Hyde Park, where Obama now lives. For 40 years...
...demand for grains has grown as developed countries produce more biofuels from food-crop feedstocks, and as people in China and India take advantage of their rapid income growth and start eating more meat (which requires more grain to feed more animals). Add to that a few short-term weather shocks, like drought in Australia, and emergency stores get depleted leaving prices to skyrocket. Fearful of food shortages, some large producer nations, including India, Vietnam and Kazakhstan, have limited exports. That can keep prices lower at home, but drives up costs further for people who people in import-dependent nations...