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...influence it would have on Burma's top brass. The extent of the regime's disconnect with reality struck me as I drove the broad, empty avenues of Naypyidaw. This is a country where roughly one-third of children were malnourished even before Nargis. Yet the generals saw no problem with spending tens of millions of dollars constructing a massive new capital. But even there, the disregard for citizens is matched only by the junta's pursuit of personal gratification; to wit: the generals have signed off on three golf courses, immaculately mowed stretches of green where top commanders...
...biggest feet in the world. How big? A recent study by a class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that even a homeless American would have a carbon footprint of 8.5 tons--twice the global average. "We have contributed more than our fair share to this problem," says Katherine Wroth, a senior editor at the green website Grist.org "It seems logical that we would want to contribute to the solution...
...especially since the laws are entirely against the interests of its students and only serve the music industry. Essentially taxing educational instiutions to preserve the record companies’ business model is an abhorrent way to protect entrenched interests. Such tactics would not even come close to solving the problem, since college students are responsible only a small part of music downloads. Clearly this new wave of legislation marks a cynical attempt by the RIAA and the states to focus on college students rather than other offenders because of the ease with which enforcement can be outsourced to universities. More...
...important challenge facing the Gen Ed committee is to find a home in the Gen Ed curriculum for the quantitative social sciences,” he said, “and this discussion about what to do with Ec10 is an example of this general problem...
Though set to count for the Gen Ed category Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning in Spring 2009, Kenneth A. Shepsle’s class, Social Analysis 46: “Thinking About Politics,” currently does not involve problem sets...