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...Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School stressed the importance of preserving the planet’s biodiversity. Co-authored by Aaron Bernstein, his book addresses the loss of biodiversity in terms of potential medical research and treatment. “We have no [environmental] Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” he said, comparing the negative impact of changes in the global environment to that of nuclear weapons. Chivian, who won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in co-founding International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said that more than 50 percent...
...Locks on the B-61 thermonuclear gravity bomb - which is up to 10 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb - prevent it from being detonated if stolen, experts say. But its weapons-grade material could be removed and turned into a dirty bomb, or even a crude nuclear device...
...merely quoting U.S. Ambassador Edward Peck-but Wright chose to interpret those "chickens" not as the decision to place U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, which was Osama bin Laden's casus belli, but as the ancient sins of slavery, the eradication of Native Americans, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It would have been nice if Moyers had asked Wright, "Do you really believe that God was punishing us for our sins? How is that different from the conservative Evangelicals who say New York was being punished for its licentiousness...
...Langue de Chat did for Marcel, cow tongue in Japan apparently does for me.I thought I’d found my story, a touching if cloying tale of recovering my roots through rediscovering tastes from my youth. But Japan escaped this column again when we left Tokyo for Hiroshima and Miyajima. Regional specialties appeared everywhere. There was the Okinomiyaki (“as you like it”)—an egg, vegetable and noodle pizza—and Momiji Manju—warm custard filled cakes in the shape of maple leaves—which are unique...
...ScientistI have been visiting the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala regularly since 1974 and have been listening to him speak to psychologists, non-Buddhist priests and philosophers-from Harvard to Hiroshima and Zurich to Malibu-since 1979. I'm not a Buddhist myself, only a typically skeptical journalist whose father, a professional philosopher, happened to meet the Dalai Lama in 1960, the year after he went into exile. But having spent time watching wars and revolutions everywhere from Sri Lanka to Beirut, I've grown intrigued by the quietly revolutionary ideas that the Dalai Lama has put into play. China...