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...lives of the Sherpas who had so often helped him. His Himalayan Trust built schools and clinics and restored monasteries. The numbers of people - many almost totally reliant on Sherpa guides - who flocked to Everest in his wake left him uneasy. "Everest, unfortunately, is largely becoming a money-making concern," he said in 1992. "If you are reasonably fit and have $35,000, you can be conducted to the top of the world...
Harvard said this week that it had no plans to sell a graduate’s 99-acre gift to the Harvard Forest, after reports of a potential sale of the Hamilton, Mass., property drew concern from local environmentalists...
...Hamilton community also expressed concern that parts of the land could be resold to developers...
...Since December’s presidential election, more than 700 people have been killed, and thousands more have been displaced. John M. Mugane, a professor of African languages who chaired the meeting, said that the plight of refugees affected by the violence should be the students’ chief concern. “This is an action meeting. We know atrocities are being committed,” Mugane said. “Lives are being devastated.” Among the plans discussed was a benefit concert with Kenyan musicians, the proceeds of which will go to the Kenya...
...Noor insisted that "there is a fundamental, common humanity that towers above our differences." But there was skepticism about whether the worthy pronouncement could usher in concrete change. Forum participant Mohammed El-Fifi, a spokesman for the Islamic Cultural Center, Spain's largest mosque, summed up a widely held concern: "Talk is talk. Can they transform all this talk into action? That's the question...