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...levels were at 280 p.p.m.; currently they're at 387 p.p.m. and rising.) That, scientists believe, should be enough to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, which should be safely below a climatic tipping point that could lead to the wide-scale melting of polar ice sheets, swamping coastal cities. "Transgressing these boundaries will increase the risk of irreversible climate change," writes Rockstrom...
...College administration renewed its commitment yesterday to begin physical renovations in the upperclassman Houses by 2012, despite University-wide budget cutbacks that have recently made the future of the sweeping $1 billion Capital Renewal project uncertain...
...Obama has more czars than the Romanovs ever did. The quip, tweeted by Senator John McCain, was a thinly veiled gripe about the President's appointment of a slew of policy coordinators tasked with everything from reforming health care to restoring the Great Lakes. The White House advisers drew wide attention earlier this month when green-jobs czar Van Jones was forced to resign after revelations of impolitic comments about Republicans and his support for a petition suggesting a government plot behind the Sept. 11 attacks. (Watch a video Q&A with Van Jones...
...TIME's photos from the wide world of weird sports...
...both organizations said that their offices’ physical proximity will provide the opportunity to initiate the cooperation that they—and Hammonds—see as increasingly necessary. Hammonds, who oversees the two offices, said that she has asked for the cooperation as part of a University-wide effort to streamline programs. “We want to see a structure in the College where the various offices are closely collaborating,” she said. The increased coordination follows the merging of two other pairs of Harvard offices in recent months. Within the College, the Offices...