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...Steven Chu, the unanimously confirmed U.S. secretary of energy, to deliver this year’s Commencement address is both timely and prudent. A Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a nuanced understanding of the power of scientific innovation, Steven Chu possesses the serious expertise necessary to inspire both current policymakers in the White House and future leaders in Harvard’s graduating classes...
...copies of the guidebooks—which were only valid for one year—was wasteful and inefficient, and an online version will save money and prove more environmentally beneficial. But the mere absence of hard copies is not a solution to the larger problem of the current guidebooks, print or online. In their current condition, these guides—specifically the Q Guide—need a major reconfiguration, and we can only hope that the shift to an online version will be a catalyst for the necessary improvements. In order to ensure that the print version...
...That’s why the primary thrust of the current Constellation program, which plans to build a permanent settlement on the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, seemed good on the surface. Its ambition rivals the Apollo program, and its announcement came on the heels of China’s first manned rocket launch, suggesting a new space race was underway. Constellation also seems to have the support of Congress, which this year proposed increasing funding for the program (at the expense of NASA’s science budget) in order to return to the moon...
...surely, with the current financial crisis, this is just the right time to keep one’s mind open to unconsidered academic and job possibilities. While not having one’s life plotted out can be terrifying, given economic conditions—663,000 more jobs were cut last month, bringing the jobless rate to a record 8.5 percent—the danger may lie not in planning too little, but too much. According to U.S. Department of Labor estimates, the average American changes careers three to five times in his lifetime, making flexibility imperative. Perhaps it?...
...also expected to deliver a message urging Turkey to embrace further democratic reforms and to refocus on its long-term goal of joining the European Union. Movement towards membership of the E.U. has stalled, both because of European leaders' unwillingness to contemplate a future with Turkey, and the current government's Islamic leanings, which have led it to turn eastwards and greater involvement with the Middle East. "The United States must remain an iron clad supporter of Turkish membership in the E.U.," 29 Democratic and Republican Congressmen wrote in a letter to the president prior to his departure...