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Which risks get excessive attention and which get overlooked depends on a hierarchy of factors. Perhaps the most important is dread. For most creatures, all death is created pretty much equal. Whether you're eaten by a lion or drowned in a river, your time on the savanna is over. That's not the way humans see things. The more pain or suffering something causes, the more we tend to fear it; the cleaner or at least quicker the death, the less it troubles us. "We dread anything that poses a greater risk for cancer more than the things that...
...billion. But there's relatively little the city can do about its greatest environmental scourge: an estimated 80% of its air pollution drifts in from mainland China's Guangdong province. "You can clean up your own backyard," White says, "but there's still this enormous problem across the river...
...ultimate fate of Iraq will be decided, the city is tearing itself in half. Sunnis in Baghdad are gathering west of the Tigris, where they're more closely connected to the Sunni territories of Anbar province. Baghdad's Shi'ites are settling on the eastern side of the river, facing the border with Iran...
...that student life concerns are not ignored by a largely disinterested University Hall. Plans for the Allston expansion are being set, and the UC should be pushing for student interests at the forefront of the discussion. New Houses should be placed as close as possible to the existing River Houses. A student center should be built sooner rather than later, and it needs to be centrally located. In the meantime, social space on the current campus should be expanded and renovated.The UC should also be putting pressure on the University to address faculty accountability and pedagogy. A position paper...
...opener for Indians. The dramatic resurgence of the Japanese port of Kitakyushu is inspiring and is surely an environmental role model. Indian cities should implement the Kitakyushu model, as Dalian in China has done, with a commitment to a cleaner future. Let us give a face-lift to the River Ganges like the one Dokai Bay had. Tougher government regulations will leave the work half done. Environment-friendly policies and improved environmental technology surely can take a green leap forward. Progress and development should not come at the cost of the environment. After all, "green growth" should...