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...renewable energy effort will now focus on convincing the Faculty of the need for a new termbill fee, a task which will be especially challenging, several supporters said, because of this year’s student activities fee hike...
...corporate sustainability reporting, in which companies are asked to assess their performance in the environmental and social spheres. Both committees abstained on or opposed resolutions for many corporations, including General Electric—a company whose size, ACSR members said, made such a report an “enormous task...
Changing the world is no easy task, but getting a good position at a respected non-profit can make it significantly more plausible. Former presidents of PBHA have taken flight to Yale and Harvard Medical Schools, traveled to Uganda on the Rockefeller Memorial Scholarship, and become the Director of Development for Big Brothers, Big Sisters Philadelphia...
...Hernquist said the resources have not always been enough. He resorted to building his own supercomputer in Cambridge with other Harvard researchers—a task some have undertaken in lieu of wrangling for access at the National Science Foundation’s centers...
...task of lying to the public was made easier by our political climate, which inhibits independent thinking. In his recent book, The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves, social critic Curtis White argues that our contemporary culture encourages Americans to consume the soundbites they’re spoon-fed rather than seek out information and evaluate it critically. White’s diagnosis would explain why voters seem increasingly willing to buy into prepackaged, spin-dried versions of the truth while tuning out inconvenient facts. In today’s polarized political milieu, many Americans...