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Since pedometers are being used to track participants’ distances, organizers acknowledged that cheating could be a problem during the competition. Pedometers are sensitive to any up-and-down motion, so particularly willful participants could simply shake their pedometers to log “steps...
...megaproject disaster.” Flyvbjerg, a professor at Aalborg University, discussed the budget overruns that are common to large infrastructure projects, or megaprojects, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design last night. According to Flyvbjerg, nine out of every 10 infrastructure projects have these fiscal problems. “So don’t believe that all projects have cost overrun,” he joked to an audience of over 70 students and faculty from graduate schools across Boston. “That’s an exaggeration.” He attributed the overstretched budgets...
...need to take in order to achieve this goal. He also stressed the severity of climate change—an impending “catastrophe,” he said, if not addressed—and asked the panelists to discuss their opinions on how best to approach the problem. William C. Clark, co-director of the Sustainabilty Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, pushed the belief that individual collective action is a critical component of the solution. Clark, who also chaired the task force that drafted Harvard’s emissions reduction plan, explained that...
...This summer, the Allston/Brighton North Neighbors Forum—with the help of Sy Mintz, the now-retired architect who designed the original Charlesview—drew up a counter proposal framework that solves both the density and segregation problem...
...nontraditional security measures and involve civic organizations and other countries in their security policy. Calling climate change “a truly defining issue of our era,” Ban said the countries most affected by climate change will be those that have contributed the least to the problem. He also said he hoped that an international climate change treaty could be ratified by next December. While he lauded Harvard’s sustainability plan, he called upon the entire United States to take a leadership role, not only in combating climate change, but also in dealing with larger...