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Fred Krupp wants to do something about the carbon dioxide that spews from tailpipes and smokestacks. But why is the president of Environmental Defense looking for solutions in tropical rain forests and Kansas cornfields? Because forests and fields pull greenhouse gases from the air. So Krupp, 52, went to Brazil to urge protection of the Amazon basin and to Kansas to promote no-till farming. Plowing fields releases CO2; if farmers plant seeds without tilling, three-quarters of a metric ton of carbon per acre could be stored every year...
...Spike Lee’s latest project, "Inside Man." He continues, "Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully." From this point on, Russell proceeds to manipulate the movie’s other characters, forcing them to do his bidding. Ultimately, Russell plans to pull of the "perfect bank robbery," hostages and police standoffs included...
...average cops-and-robbers soirée. Perhaps its trickiest feat is balancing two distinct storylines: a cop movie (the police are the good guys and the drama is behind the barricades) and a heist movie (the robbers are the good guys and the fun is in seeing them pull off their convoluted plot). It is hard to cheer for both sides at once, but the movie makes it possible (no telling who wins in the end, though) by directing all our antipathy towards another, separate villain (who happens to have Nazi ties...
...time at Harvard has been shaped by Greg, and vice-versa.“For me, it was a pretty easy decision to come here,” Greg said. “Steve’s my best friend, so picture your best friend trying to pull you to a certain school, and then picture that school being one of the top academic institutions in the world. It’s really not a difficult decision.”Nor was it difficult for the Crimson to make the decision that it wanted both Cohens here at Harvard...
...took ninth place. Harvard was fifth overall in the event, while host Boston College took first. TEAM RACING SERIES 1 AT BC Steele and Cordeiro competed again on Sunday and were joined by captain Sloan Devlin and junior crew Christina Dahlman. Flynn and Nathanson also sailed again, helping Harvard pull out a third-place finish behind Boston College and Brown. As was the case on Saturday, the conditions were frigid, and a shifty northwest breeze caused a number of capsizes throughout the regatta. ST. MARY’S WOMEN’S INTERSECTIONAL The women were at St. Mary?...