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None of these changes are technically difficult. Collectively they could dramatically reduce the oil intensity of developed countries' economies while serving as role models for the rapidly emerging new economies that cannot afford to use oil as wastefully as we have used...
...life was far less this time than in previous fires. I praise the local authorities for using reverse-911 calls and making sure people were out of harm's way. Nevertheless, there was a lot of property damage, thanks to the Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions. You cannot win against Mother Nature - whether you're confronting hurricanes in the East or fires and earthquakes in the West. You can only do your best to save people and the things that are important to them. Janet LeClainche, LAKESIDE, CALIF...
...theft on our colleagues in the music community. After having watched thousands of regular, working class employees laid off and no longer in the music profession, we are not.Whatever one might see as the future for record companies, the importance of their creative and business role to date cannot be denied. Record companies have invested enormous sums of money to find and develop talent, and to record and market music. They have been integral to the creative process, whether it is pairing a recording artist with the right song or helping to perfect that artist’s sound...
...omnibus immigration bill. We hope Congress recognizes the urgency of the situation and passes a cap increase in time to raise the number of visas issued beginning in April, 2008. Today, competition for highly skilled workers is truly global. If it wishes to stay competitive, the United States cannot afford to continue its backward policies. The government should increase the quotas as soon as possible in order to avoid losing another generation of some of the world’s most talented workers...
...should be evaluated in the same way.Finally, all professors should be required to offer evaluations at the end of their courses. This has been an astonishingly controversial issue among professors, who hypocritically voted to mandate evaluation for teaching fellows but not themselves. A culture of feedback and improvement cannot be established if faculty see themselves as above evaluation. The Faculty’s recalcitrance also hurts students, who cannot be expected to take their evaluations seriously if professors do not respond to suggestions for improvement and publish their evaluations in the Q Guide. While the new Q is a step...