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...ultimately, McKibben is a sentimentalist, not a scientist, for which The End of Nature suffers. The book's last chapter dissolves into a series of ruminations about what McKibben terms an "anthropocentric" society that values human life above all other forms. In order to forestall the end of nature, he says, humanity needs to begin thinking about the earth as a whole...
McKibben wrote for The New Yorker for several years after leaving Harvard, and it shows. The End of Nature cultivates the quietly lyrical style that is the magazine's trademark. Nowhere is this background more evident than in the closing of the second chapter when McKibben explains why the "green-house effect" is an apt name for the global warming problem...
Despite Gorbachev's original inclination to take quick and drastic action, he hesitated to go as far as some had demanded, and initiated the bargaining session that sharply reduced the scope of the emergency plan. After the vote, Gorbachev seemed to recognize that he had presided over a new chapter in Soviet history. "I think we've done the right thing," he said. Even the more moderate measures may help cool the rash of strikes. More important, one of Gorbachev's crucial reforms seemed to be working: an elected legislature had debated and bargained its way to a sensible compromise...
Fellow lactose intolerants, campus activists and other caring people should write The Crimson. With enough support, I hope to start the first chapter of Lactose Intolerants for a Progressive Society. (LIPS...
Last week, 35 Harvard men stopped that evolution dead in its tracks. The revival of a Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu, a predominantly Jewish national fraternity, is a giant leap backwards for a community that strives towards diversity...