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...Harvard will probably make a bid, but the property is less valuable to us or anyone else than it appears at first. The property is encumbered with leases and other restrictions, and the soil conditions and other environmental problems are formidable challenges," he wrote in an e-mail message...
Probably not, which is why it's a good thing we have environmentalists of every stripe, Green Cup not least among them. Last week they carpet-bombed Houses with table tents and flyers (all printed on 100 percent recycled paper, no less). Some shouted saucy slogans, others combined Orwellian starch with the sort of gentle, nudging reminders one finds on the refrigerator doors of overweight aunts: "GREEN CUP SAYS: Please don't waste food," "GREEN CUP Reminds you... Don't forget to recycle!" (Green Cup is watching...
Nevertheless, team spirit was practically bubbling over after Adams was disqualified. Yes, disqualified. From the Green Cup. Maybe for shooting squirrels in the courtyard? For mixing aluminum with glass? It's tough to say, but one guesses they were less than heartbroken. Disqualification from a contest loses some of its sting when the competitors don't know they're competing...
...halt U.S. aid in order to stop Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - a form of leverage as unthinkable during Clinton's tenure as moving the embassy would have been on President Bush's watch. (Of course President Bush was substantially driven by a concern, less important to the Clinton administration, to maintain the support of moderate Arab regimes in the showdown with Iraq...
...easy these days. That grim news comes courtesy of an American Lung Association study, released Tuesday, that rates the air quality in cities across the nation - and hands failing grades to nearly half. Those receiving F's include a broad cluster of California cities, as well as many other, less predictable metropolitan areas like Birmingham, Ala., and Wilmington, Del. Leaping to the defense of recent, tougher anti-smog regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency has already criticized the report, claiming the ALA rankings, while technically accurate, don't represent the efforts of many pollution-prone cities, like Los Angeles, to improve...