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...anonymous wit scratched those lines on the side of a junked car door and lugged it to a trail near my home in Northern California. The middle of a pristine, ancient redwood grove is the wrong place to find a rusted-out car door, but the words magically transformed the thing from an aggravating piece of junk into art. I Googled the quote as soon as I got home, of course, but found nothing. (Thanks to Google, we live in a world where "I don't know" has become an unacceptable response. So my inability to identify the author there...
Since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, virtually every indicator in the fight against climate change has continued to head the wrong way. The planet’s temperature continues to rise. Industrial activity is increasing, and with it greenhouse gases. Vehicle miles travelled, a key indicator of the public’s concern, has risen steadily before taking a slight dip in the most recent quarter, due to higher fuel prices...
...turns out, I did have it wrong. I forgot that in order to enter a gate, you first need to be outside of it. If there was one piece of advice I wish I had been given four years ago, it would be to leave Harvard once in a while, if only for a few hours into Boston, to return refreshed and with a little perspective. Whether I was riding the T to the end of the line just to see what was there (not much), shopping on Newbury Street or lining up for student rush tickets at Jordan Hall...
...crush that awaited us at the Green Line station, I was struck by the awful truth that I had spent four years trying to deny. I, along with the rest of my Bombers-loving ’08 brethren, just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time.As Kulper put it, “Who do they think they are, the Yankees...
...People see a national park and say 'Oh, this is protected.' Well, not completely," says Joy Oakes, senior Mid-Atlantic regional director for The National Parks Conservation Association, "because within those boundaries are holes... and all it takes is one bad development, or one perfectly good development in the wrong place, to have an enormous impact...