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...their official trip outside of the country, "the concept [of the meeting] is to play hard and work hard," said Uchikawa. "This [kind of seminar] is something they're not used to. They [are used to] only work[ing] hard...
Sustainable use is not some fringe idea, but rather the central organizing principle for global environmental policy, a concept refined over two decades at international conferences. It is often paired with "sustainable development" -- the notion that economic development, if carried out in a careful manner, can proceed without exhausting the natural resources needed by future generations. As recently as last June during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, governments tried to forge an action agenda based on sustainable development...
Environmentalists cling to the idea of sustainable development because it enables them to present themselves as advocates of economic progress and, as Robinson puts it, "the concept allows them to play with the big boys and have an impact on huge development projects." If sustainable development proves illusory, environmentalists will be left with a huge problem: there is no big idea ready to fill the void. With human numbers expected to double in the next 60 years, policymakers must now find some new trail map that will enable humanity to walk the ledge between rising material expectations and the wholesale...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
Imagine a film with the legal smarts of a John Grisham novel and a sci-fi concept wilder than Deep Space Nine. Reginald and Warrington Hudlin, the filmmakers behind House Party and Boomerang, are in discussions with New York University law professor Derrick Bell about making a movie version of a short story in Bell's book Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Bell's story is a sharp commentary on the way the legal system mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost...