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...with creative ways to tick people off. Spirit Airlines announced this month that it will start charging passengers as much as $45 to bring a carry-on bag. RyanAir is getting ready to install coin-operated toilets. But there may be at least one upside to the current extra-fee-ganza: better airline food. (See pictures of what the world eats...
Bill McKibben may be the world's best green journalist, but even he wishes the climate-change skeptics were right. That would mean we weren't headed for a warmer planet--one that McKibben calls Eaarth (the extra a is for extra awful)--that will be profoundly more difficult to live on. But our fate is sealed: "Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality." McKibben backs up his claim with page after page detailing the impact that global warming has already had, from...
...performance, TAPS is here to run through every number in the program for six hours, beginning at 10 a.m. According to Golden, an officer of the group, they schedule extra rehearsal time to polish their dances as the performance approaches...
...today, shopping is incredibly inefficient. The registrar seems to have a knack for wrongly guessing a given class’s enrollment, leading to a complex room reshuffle during the first week. In addition, many classes must scramble to find extra Teaching Fellows, a slow process that can delay sectioning and the syllabus. These TFs are also frequently underqualified, drawn from a subdiscipline barely relevant to the class. The current pre-registration plan hopes to cut down on this initial chaos—which cost Harvard one million dollars last year—but eliminating shopping would end it definitively...
...scored in the top of the frame after a pair errors by Rams shortstop Courtney Prendergastt. Junior outfielder Emily Henderson grounded a ball to Prendergastt, whose throwing error allowed the outfielder to reach second. After advancing to third on a Krysiak groundout, Henderson scored to send the game into extra innings as Prendergastt misplayed a ball batted by co-captain Melissa Schellberg, a Crimson sports editor...