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...Climate change is different from anything we've had to contend with on a policy level," says Ackerman. "The assumption in any policy discussion is that if a proposal doesn't go forward, you still have the status quo. Here the status quo is not available as a fallback, as doing nothing means a rapidly changing climate and worsening conditions all over the world. By the time you're absolutely certain of the impacts and can observe them in everyday life, it's too late." This is why, he says, paying attention to the dynamics of climate harbingers - such...
...extra time to relax will be especially important given that the squad will have to contend with one of Ivy League’s premier attackers in Dartmouth senior Ari Sussman, a first team All-Ivy selection two years...
Harvard’s toughest competition will come from No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Penn State, while St. Johns, Princeton, and Ohio State will also look to contend for individual and team accolades...
...some students contend that required withdrawal is a flawed disciplinary response, as well as an ineffective educational measure...
...Compounding the book's hamfisted nature is its tendency to sound like an apologia for the Chinese government. For instance, the Naisbitts blame "the Western press" for stoking fear about the 2003 SARS epidemic and contend that "Chinese media broke the news of official suppression of information about the SARS outbreak" in Beijing in 2003. In fact, the cover-up was revealed by Jiang Yanyong, a courageous Communist Party doctor whose statement on the subject was first published in TIME. The Naisbitts' claim that Hong Kong people "never really demanded" democracy is also nonsense, given the massive demonstrations that took...