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...where socially conscious students feel the need to justify their extreme privilege. We’re young and we’re supposed to be idealistic, but too many Harvard students limit themselves to a “realistic” alternative that they don’t even understand. Too many of us define our ideals around ourselves and too few of us define ourselves around ideals.The compromise logic assumes that the only way to make a change, to contribute in this world, is to be on top. Fortunately, the world isn’t only about the elite...
...expression patterns, meaning that different cells use different genes at different times to perform their complex functions. "Under the microscope, neurons look the same, but in terms of gene expression, it looks like there are differences," says Foltz. "This has opened up whole new fields for cognitive neuroscientists to understand what makes the [neurons] that go to the eye different from the ones that go to the memory center or the ear. The atlas allows you to make inferences, and inspires you to think of all kinds of things...
...industry must now seize the opportunity to make a difference," it stated, "not just to the future of our own industry, but to the future of society." On Oct. 31, Lloyds issued a follow-up that emphasized the need to encourage renewable energy technology, and appealed to companies to understand that adapting to climate change will need to become part of everyday business. While Lloyds emphasized the urgency of change, many environmentalists look at insurers' green conversion with an air of skepticism. They point out that so far, only European companies seem to understand the problems climate change will present...
...popular resort towns of Spain's Costa Brava. Instead, Vassort is one of a growing number of European pensioners jumping the Mediterranean to Morocco - and getting much more bang for their euro. "We have a wonderful life in Morocco, so it's easy to understand why more French people are coming to live here," says Vassort, who lives with his wife and lumbering labrador Othello among the serpentine streets of les Oudayas, the ancient casbah of Morocco's capital, Rabat. "The Moroccans are friendly and astoundingly hospitable. The weather is good all year. There's a rich cultural and social...
...idea of the triumph of one people being the tragedy of another is eloquently captured in Sandy Tolan's book, The Lemon Tree - essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the difficulty in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tolan chronicles the true story of Dalia Eshkenazi, whose family flees post-Holocaust Bulgaria in 1948 to live the Zionist dream of building a Jewish state in the Holy Land. The new Israeli government provides them with an abandoned Arab house in the town of Ramla, in which she grows up. One summer morning in 1967, she's sitting in the garden...