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...before the dawn of the modern era, the total had risen to a comfortable 280 p.p.m. In just the past century and a half, we have pushed the level to 381 p.p.m., and we're feeling the effects. Of the 20 hottest years on record, 19 occurred in the 1980s or later. According to NASA scientists, 2005 was one of the hottest years in more than a century...
...point man on all doctrinal issues as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a post that Cardinal Ratzinger held under John Paul for 24 years. When Benedict gave the job to Levada, a friend since the two worked together in Rome in the early 1980s, most Vatican insiders were shocked, having expected a European intellectual heavyweight in the post. Message: Benedict knows the kind of ship he wants, and on key personnel moves, he?ll take his own counsel above...
...which later became Moral Reasoning. Keller writes that the requirement attempted to meet the needs of several types of students, in particular skeptics who believed that disguised self-interest was the only basis of rational choice.“My own experience teaching Moral Reasoning during the 1980s,” writes President Bok’s wife and former Moral Reasoning professor Sissela Bok in an e-mail, “was both challenging and exhilarating.” Indeed, The Crimson reported in November 1984 that after hearing a lecture in Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice...
...Forum (BMF) and the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR). Slides showing commercial depictions of masculinity, including a juxtaposition of the scantily-clad and violent hulks of today’s wrestling rings with the “zany and comical” wrestlers admired in the 1980s and early 90s, opened the event, which drew an audience of over 40 men and women to Emerson Hall. But moderator Gordon Braxton, a prevention specialist from OSAPR, pointed out that today’s depictions of masculinity are both contradictory and complex, citing movies as having...
...lose from it. Nobody lobbies a legislature to thank them for cheap T shirts; any group of workers in the industrialized world whose job has just been "lost" to China's Pearl River Delta can be assured of a hearing on the evening news. And just as in the 1980s, when U.S. legislators had panic attacks after Japanese investors overpaid for everything from Hawaiian beachfront hotels to the Rockefeller Center, the foreign ownership of key domestic industries is promoting a backlash. "Countries are still trying to keep some poles of industrial strength within their economies," says Courtis. "I wouldn...