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...percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050—a promise that President-Elect Barack Obama reaffirmed on Tuesday that he will uphold.McKibben’s newest initiative stems from research by NASA’s top climate scientist, James E. Hansen, that carbon dioxide levels should be limited to 350 parts per million (ppm) in order to ensure a climate agreeable to civilization. That calls for a sizable reduction from the current level, which is 385 parts ppm.Titled simply “350,” the project aims to influence policy-makers at an international climate...
...Julia C. Silverman ’10, president of another event co-sponsor, the Harvard College Alliance for Africa (HCAA). The HCAA is currently collecting used laptops to donate to the New Hope Orphanage in Busia, Uganda. The technology would both educate children and eventually help them find higher-level jobs, according to HCAA Treasurer Charlotte A. Chuter ’10. The HCAA will hold a laptop collection on Dec. 12 and 13 outside Quincy House and in Annenberg. Negroponte said he hoped Harvard students would get involved by traveling to developing nations during the summer to distribute...
...return? I was excited about competing gain, to start pushing myself. I wanted to see where my level was compared to other people. It all sort of made sense...
...refused to give up their annual salaries. All the while, the trio, rounded out by Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli, proclaimed their innocence for the mess their companies are in, laying the blame largely on an unprecedented credit crunch that has helped push car and truck sales to their lowest level in 25 years...
...could fall below 10% by the end of the year because of lower Christmas-season orders for products like electronics. And China's notoriously thrifty consumers haven't made up for the drop in foreign demand. Amid the global turmoil, their expectations for rising incomes are at the lowest level recorded in years. All of that threatens to turn Dongxiaokou from the epicenter of a bustling recycling economy into a massive junkyard...