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...come to be known as "green building." They include a Massachusetts "solar zealot" making sun power more affordable for homeowners, a couple in India developing eco-friendly communities, an Italian promoting concrete that "eats" air pollution and a Texas crusader for greener hospitals. They all want a world where concern for the earth is "built in" from the start...
Turkey did not acknowledge the genocide in the years immediately following World War I because it was concerned that such acknowledgement would imperil its territorial claims, Akçam said. But he added that this should no longer be a concern for the Turkish government...
Given the recent instances of outsiders sneaking into Harvard houses, I can understand this particular student’s concern and her decision to call the police on me. I have to admit, though, that I am still a little confused why I was mistaken for a creeper. I just figured that normally people are not suspicious of a college-aged kid entering a dorm at 1 p.m. on a school day, wearing a “Harvard ‘08” sweatshirt and carrying a book about deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs...
...idea.Of all the essays in the book, “The Case for Literature,” the lecture which inspired the compilation, is by far the most polished, most authentic, and most comprehensive statement of this idea. Gao contends that a writer’s utmost concern is “the portrayal of truth in human life.”However, in his view, the author’s work should be centered around neither a concern for verisimilitude nor a concern for creativity that may be “divorced from authentic feelings.” Purely...
...mass destruction, and now the U.S. hopes to use the Security Council resolution to hamper its access to global capital markets. But in a sign that not all the Security Council powers share the U.S. agenda, China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told Reuters, "The main objective is our concern about Iranian nuclear and missile activities, so there is no need to expand beyond that area" - and quoted Bank Sepah as an example where the resolution would have to be narrowed to exclude affecting transactions unrelated to those activities...