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...metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Even the use of 100 percent recycled newsprint only shaves the figure down to 1,042 metric tons, still nearly a thousand-fold difference. And those figures do not include the environmental impacts of shipping and printing. Of course, simplistic assumptions yield simplistic results. In the real world, some rooms on campus never remove their daily copy from their door, while other rooms regularly collect—and presumably go on to read—every publication that is dropped there. The door drop waste reduction campaign seeks to put an end only...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman | Title: Wistfully Wasteless | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...announcement, made Monday, likely comes too close to Harvard’s Jan. 1 application deadline to affect the number of applicants to the Class of 2012, Fitzsimoons said. But given Harvard’s decision to eliminate early action, this year’s yield may be hard to predict...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Aid Initiative May Lower Admission Rate | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons said the fact that Harvard doesn’t have early action could depress the yield, though he added that the effect could be the opposite if Harvard ends up being students’ least expensive option...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Aid Initiative May Lower Admission Rate | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons explained that other schools have several months remaining in which to adjust their own plans for financial aid, so it is “impossible to know” what the total effect on Harvard’s yield might be. The recruiting efforts of other schools are also an important factor, he said...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Aid Initiative May Lower Admission Rate | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...this research if I suffered from Parkinson's disease, as Kinsley does? I doubt it. My mother died with the disease, and my brother battles it every day. Being touched by a disease doesn't make the moral questions easier. And though I hope that stem-cell research will yield untold benefits, my excitement is muted - perhaps because I was a research chemist for more than 40 years. Only when we see giant corporations risk their dollars on research will we see progress. Joseph K. Valaitis, BRECKSVILLE, OHIO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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