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More than 60 years later, Harvard receives applications in excess of 16,000 each year and Lowell--now the third largest House on campus--houses 433 students. But despite the College's best efforts to maintain a stable undergraduate population of about 6,400, masters and residents say the Houses feel more crowded than ever...
...fight it. Last November there were no fewer than 240 antisprawl ballot initiatives around the country. Most of them passed. Some stripped local authorities of the power to approve new subdivisions without voter assent. Others okayed tax money to buy open land before the developers get it. In the largest of those, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman successfully pushed a referendum to use sales-tax money to buy half the state's undeveloped land--a million acres. "Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back," she says...
However, the single largest emitter of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is the United States, followed by most nations of the developed, industrialized world. This situation highlights an environmental injustice perpetrated by the industrialized world towards a poor developing nation. As such, it's not a stretch to say that we have a moral responsibility to dampen the adverse effects of climate change in order to protect the populations who are most vulnerable to those hazards. To me, this notion of environmental justice is compelling and reassures me that my attempts to protect the environment are indeed the "right thing...
This was the largest enforcement action ever taken against an institution of higher learning...
...largest pipe and drum unit was the Boston Gaelic Fire Brigade...