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...helping do that is to set aside forests as carbon ?preserves,? called carbon sequestration in wonk-speak. If a market developed to package and sell certified reductions in greenhouse emissions, money might flow to states that took action to reduce deforestation. By one calculation, if Acre would commit to cutting in half the expected deforestation along a 500-km stretch of BR-364, the state might ultimately gain $37 million a year from the sale of greenhouse credits. The concept is risky because it might perversely encourage governments to launch development projects in the hope of selling credits to stop...
...campus--from providing the faculty with office space to securing performance stages for student dramatic productions--but the University has the opportunity to construct a center for students that would foster community among undergraduates. Student groups are the spirit of undergraduate life on campus, and the University should commit itself to establishing a centrally-located community for our activities. Even if construction is not a viable option because of limited property space, the University could convert the Inn at Harvard--which will be in Harvard's hands in 13 years--into a student center...
According to University Counsel Allen A. Ryan, if Metallica or Dr. Dre decide to report individuals who commit online copyright infringement, student offenders may lose their network access indefinitely...
...much of the campaign year, environmentalist groups have dogged the Gore campaign over the fate of the U'wa, an 5,00-strong indigenous Colombian tribe who've threatened to commit mass suicide if Occidental goes ahead with a plan to drill oil on land they hold sacred. Just last week pro-U'wa hecklers disrupted a University of Missouri speech by Karenna Gore-Schiff, and a second group were arrested trying to enter a Gore campaign office in Washington state. Of course, these protests are mostly an opportunistic effort by the tribe's supporters to take advantage...
...little sleep is that they are swamped with too much coursework. Nor do I think that any Harvard student would like academic standards to be lowered. At the same time, I sympathize with our students' enthusiasm for the societies and other extra-curricular activities to which they commit hours every week. We all share a common goal of trying to pack more into twenty-four hours than will ever fit until one of our alumni uses his Harvard training to invent a method of slowing the earth in its orbit. So where is the way out of this impasse...