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...high school students for college, the greatest investments in science and technology ever, recruiting extraordinary new faculty like Louis Menand and Steven Pinker, expanding study abroad, defending affirmative action, making ours a “Green Campus”—all of that is irrelevant to the one-third of professors (of one out of Harvard’s nine faculties) that voted to kick the bastard when he’s down...
...Honestly, I did not think that the resolution would achieve more than one-third of the votes,” Matory said...
...Honestly, I did not think that the resolution would achieve more than one-third of the votes,” Matory said...
...there are few things the country needs more urgently. New Zealand's Maui gas field, discovered in the 1970s, provides one-third of the country's power and tops up hydro shortfalls when rivers are low. But within three to five years the gas will be gone. Meanwhile, a growing economy is gobbling up power - 2.5% more of it each year - and making the national grid feel its age. Power lines into Auckland, where almost one-third of New Zealanders now live, can barely handle peak loads. At a national electricity summit two weeks ago, industry leaders warned that...
...guardians for their orphaned grandchildren. The margin of survival is extraordinarily narrow; sometimes it closes entirely. One woman we meet in front of her mud hut has 15 orphaned grandchildren. Her small farm plot, a little more than an acre in all, would be too small to feed her family even if the rains had been plentiful. The soil nutrients have been depleted so significantly in this part of Malawi that crop yields reach only about a half-ton per acre, about one-third of normal. This year, because of the drought, she will get almost nothing. She reaches into...