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This focus on social activism came out in Barrios' talks with students. One of the major concerns that he discussed was a Massachusetts ballot initiative which, if approved, would "create an across-the-board income tax cut that would force us to close a number of social service programs...
There is hardly any issue in the current presidential race that seems as clear-cut as the environment. While Vice President Al Gore '69 is as close as it gets to being an environmentalist in government, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, as the Economist put it, "has never suggested he cares." Their respective records back up this image of the two candidates. Gore, author of the 1992 manifesto Earth in the Balance, is an avid supporter of the Kyoto protocol--a 1997 commitment signed by over 100 countries to stem global emissions of greenhouse gases. Alternatively, Bush's home state...
...environment. For instance, Bush's campaign emphasizes the importance of private, voluntary conservation efforts. Besides a few proposed incentive programs such as tax breaks, grants and awards, the effectiveness of this strategy is highly questionable. Every "Social Analysis 10: Principles of Economics" student learns that asking businesses to voluntarily cut down on pollution--equivalent to asking private industries to freely provide a public good--simply does not work...
Butts--whose book OK, So Now You're a Vegetarian, the first vegetarian cookbook by a teen for teens, was published in August--is part of a small but fast-growing movement among kids ages 6 to 18. More Americans are choosing to cut out red meat. But kids, spurred by everything from a love of animals to trendiness to a concern for the environment, are adopting various forms of vegetarianism at higher rates than ever--often independent of their carnivorous parents...
...number of kids, while difficult to track exactly, is relatively small. People who consider themselves vegetarians make up only about 6% of the general population, and what constitutes vegetarianism varies (see box). Those who cut out red meat--or eschew everything animal except eggs and dairy--far exceed the number of strict vegans, who eat no animal products...