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...partisans of a student center pin the blame for various defects in life at Harvard on the lack of a building dedicated to the needs of students. If we had a student center, they remind us, student life would be less atomized, there would be a greater sense of community and Harvard's rather hit-and-miss social scene would be invigorated. Though undergraduate life does suffer from these problems, focusing our energies on lobbying for a student center is futile and counterproductive. The obstacles are obvious and formidable--the lack of any suitable land in notoriously crowded Cambridge, indifference...
...behavioral tax cuts, or a big, broad, blind one. Buy time for Social Security, or try to reform it. Increase the government's role in health care, or decrease it. Get the federal government on the education problem, or get the states to handle it. Spend more, or spend less. Stay out of Alaska, or drill it cautiously. Cheney may have encapsulated the evening's major tone shift with one comment on fixing public schools: "We think we know how to do that." Hey - we're both trying to help, and each of us thinks we know...
...unpaved stretch takes six days to drive in the rainy season. It would require less than a day on an all-weather surface. The decision to pave the highway is largely the product of vigorous lobbying by giant agribusinesses, which see the route as a more profitable way to export soybeans. (After the U.S., Brazil is the world?s largest exporter of the crop.) A Brazilian-American consortium is planning to build an enormous dock-and-loading system in Santar?m, the sleepy port that lies at the junction of the Tapaj?s and Amazon rivers, 700 km from the Atlantic Ocean...
...direct and indirect effects of fire reduce moisture and rainfall and further enhance the prospects of more burning. Cleared land releases less water to the skies than forest does, while smoke inhibits rainfall by saturating the air with vast numbers of tiny particles, each of which can become the basis of a water droplet. But the droplets remain tiny, and do not become heavy enough to fall to the ground, according to a study by David Rosenfeld at Israel?s Jerusalem University. Instead, they stay in the sky, in effect as sterile clouds. This enhances the prospects of more fire...
...Remarkably, this unsanctioned invasion took place in plain view on one of the most traveled stretches of the busiest highway in Rond?nia. Moreover, the dozen or so clearings were cut in less than a week, a coordinated assault that bespeaks organization and planning. Antonio Alves, one of the settlers, says he came here because he was told the land did not belong to anyone. In fact, it belongs to a nonprofit organization that has not been able to produce clear title to the land; ibama officials guess that the settlers were tipped to this opportunity by a local politician...