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...Bonn meetings weren't totally devoid of progress. One of the main questions facing global-climate negotiators is what should be done about tropical deforestation, since the logging and burning of trees is responsible for a fifth or more of global carbon emissions. The current Kyoto Protocol doesn't address the issue, and many - though not all - environmentalists would like to add avoided deforestation to a new global climate deal, allowing rich countries to offset some of their carbon emissions by paying tropical nations to preserve their forests. Although the idea is a controversial one - Greenpeace released a report...
...having fewer language requirements. For department administrators, the key challenge may be to market these new options in a way that makes their fields both attractive and understandable for potential concentrators. HDRB representatives were present at the Advising Fortnight kickoff dinner in Annenberg Hall on April 6 to inform current freshmen about the new concentration. They will also participate in a Life Sciences Open House on April 13 as well as a panel discussion with Life Sciences Concentration Advisors on April 15. Elias A. Shaaya ’12, who is a Crimson editorial editor, said that he is considering...
...would transform American dance forever.The symposium features a starry list of illustrious guest speakers, panelists, and moderators that includes Joan Acocella, staff writer for The New Yorker; Anna Kisselgoff, former chief dance critic at the New York Times; former New York City Ballet dancer Toni Bentley; and current Boston Ballet director Mikko Nissinen, as well as Harvard faculty and visiting professors of history, music, and drama from colleges around the globe. Lecture topics range from “Fashion for Russia” to “Balanchine and Massine” and “Igor Stravinsky...
...Harvard. On one wall hangs the sketch of a cross-section of a slave ship (“I have no idea what that’s about,” Biggers says). On the other, a piece of brown wrapping paper lists some of Biggers’ current projects: a multi-venue installation in Philadelphia that will trace locations from the Underground Railroad, a sculpture and floor design for a new high school in the Bronx, a series of dance vignettes based on a performance Biggers presented to the Dalai Lama.It’s no surprise that Biggers...
...panel hosted by International Relations on Campus in coordination with the Environmental Action Committee last night in Sever 113. The three experts tended to agree that the sluggishness on environmental policy derives from both discord among international powers and differing perspectives on how to handle the body of current environmental knowledge. Regardless of the fact that activists have been “yelling” about environmental issues for a number of years, “the yelling doesn’t get us anywhere,” said panel participant Timothy C. Weiskel, co-director of the Climate Talks...