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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...
There very well may be a need for dialogue about female sexuality at Harvard, but cordoning women off into a room is not going to solve the problem. For there to truly be “safe space” at Harvard and beyond, women have to be willing to engage the enemy. FemSex does not offer one seminar on how to confront gender stereotypes in the real world: it is only interested in separating women into these silly slumber party seminars...
...Laptop use is clearly a good idea. The problem is not laptop use—it’s internet use,” she said. “Sending e-mails is not what a student should be doing...
...Maybe the faculty aren’t holding the students’ interest,” Lewis said. “To go after the technology in order to make students more attentive seems to be the wrong solution to the problem...
...latter problem seemed to have been slightly defused Monday with the resignation of Foreign Minister Maria Consuelo Araujo. But not before the spectacle of seeing her brother Sen. Alvaro Araujo charged not only with collusion with the para warlord who controlled his home region, but also with participating in the kidnapping of a rival politician. When Sen. Araujo was called in for questioning last fall, local pundits had called for Minister Araujo's resignation. But Uribe said he refused to "sacrifice" his foreign minister because of the possible misdeeds of her brother. Nevertheless, after the senator's arrest...