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...discussions ignore one of the main causes of environmental degradation: overpopulation. We have been breeding like locusts, filling every available space and devouring all available resources. The planet simply cannot sustain such population growth, particularly when everyone understandably aspires to a First World lifestyle. Tackling this problem raises difficult moral, ethical and sociological issues. But if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable. Dick Keane Dublin...
...Tsyvinski, an associate professor, said that he would be using the scholarship money towards travel for research. “I will be using it to go to Moscow, and to Italy, and to a couple of other places to get different ideas and viewpoints on the problem of how to design governmental taxation policy,” Tsyvinsky said. Antras, an assistant professor who is on leave this academic year, said that the nomination and selection process took under a year. “Around May or June of last year my department told me that I was being...
After dry-cleaning solvent was discovered in ground water at Harvard Law School last December, school officials have launched a further round of testing on the water and air to ensure that it is not a serious problem. The testing, which consists of drilling and sampling, is scheduled to continue through May. “The main message to take away is that we’re being abundantly cautious to make sure this is being handled right,” said Michael A. Armini, the Law School director of communications. “It was one of those things...
...been thinking about doing a ‘Hot or Not’ site for students,” says PeopleRadar founder, Richard W.T. Price. “But the tricky thing is getting photos for that.” Price found a solution to this problem by borrowing his subjects from Facebook.com’s existing pool of hotties without having to even ask permission. The Facebook.com’s Terms of Use policy, that no one ever reads, allows it to distribute user information to foster foundling programs, like PeopleRadar. A Facebook.com member must alter their...
...spreadsheets!). Once the survey is completed, addicts and non-addicts alike receive lengthy advice reports. For those Harvard students unfamiliar with the word “denial.” The site provides an example in our own lingo: “I don’t have a problem. You’ve got the problem, Dude. And besides, you’re beginning to tick me off!” Cowabunga! Surprisingly, a random sample of ten students in Quincy House dining hall yielded none who scored in the addicted range...