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...fast as global warming is transforming the oceans and the ice caps, it's having an even more immediate effect on land. People, animals and plants living in dry, mountainous regions like the western U.S. make it through summer thanks to snowpack that collects on peaks all winter and slowly melts off in warm months. Lately the early arrival of spring and the unusually blistering summers have caused the snowpack to melt too early, so that by the time it's needed, it's largely gone. Climatologist Philip Mote of the University of Washington has compared decades of snowpack levels...
...offensive slump, according to Brown, is merely a symptom of rust, and should dissipate with the fading winter...
...saying goes, the early bird gets the buffalo chicken. At least that’s the case at Annenberg these days—the famed freshman dining hall now opens its doors for dinner at 4 p.m. The earlier hours have been in effect since students returned from winter break, and between 60 and 100 students on average now swipe in before 5 p.m. each day, according to Crista Martin, assistant director for marketing of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). While many freshmen say they appreciate the added convenience, Undergraduate Council (UC) President John S. Haddock...
...years, and the student activists will graduate.”Those activists cite other schools which have moved faster as examples for Harvard to follow. “The precedent has been set by other universities and we’re just lagging behind—having finals after winter break, that’s ok. It’s fine to say we’re different and unique in a certain way. But this is just not OK,” says MK Eagle ’06, the BGLTSA’s community chair.Other universities have transitioned...
...supposed to be.” “It was insane,” he says of the tour. “I remember being in a place called Japan, but I didn’t know if I was actually in Japan.” This winter, Harvard has taken a backseat to Eskenazi’s nascent rockstardom. He has been bussing it to New York each weekend to rehearse new tracks. “He’s only around Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,” his roommate Magnus Grimeland ’07 reports...