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...recently discovered an unexpected ally in my mercury mania: Christian conservatives. It seems that segments of the evangelical community are starting to view environmentalism--or, as they prefer to call it, "creation care"--as part of their biblical mandate. But getting the ground troops mobilized behind a cause long scorned as touchy-feely nonsense requires a bit of creativity. (Witness the flop of the 2002 "What would Jesus drive?" campaign.) Thus some religious leaders are linking pollution to the hot-button issue of unborn tots, who, after all, tend to be the most vulnerable to environmental toxins...
Sadly, my guess is that Evangelicals won't embrace "creation care" with as much gusto as they did, say, the anti-gay-marriage movement anytime soon. Still, I take satisfaction in knowing that even a few leaders of that politically influential constituency have started pestering policy makers about more aggressive pollution control. If I have to lie awake nights being worried that the runoff from some waste incinerator in Ohio is somehow going to cause my baby to be born with webbed feet, I want Karl Rove and Bill Frist to be fretting about those issues as well...
...into that narrow definition. The College’s most significant accomplishments on the social front during Corker’s tenure include convincing the Cambridge Licensing Commission to re-extend party hours to 2 a.m. and beginning a semi-regular event that may eventually lead to the creation of a permanent campus...
Though a romance-seeking polygamist might seriously enter information into the PolyMatchMaker, Jonathan M. Hyman ’08 and Shaan K. Hathiramani ’08’s creation of Crimson Cupid—an online matchmaker service for Harvard Students—had less serious intentions. Hathiramani wrote, “The ultimate goal is to provide the students of Harvard with yet another rousing way to take a break from work and have some fun, and maybe even find the love of his or her life and make many, many babies.” Perhaps...
Having already assisted Corker in planning events like Pub Night, Haan proposed the creation of a centralized, web-based calendar of events that will effectively publicize campus happenings...