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...global governmental neglect behind those numbers is "the most critical failure of the 20th century" and the major challenge for the 21st, contends Peter Gleick, one of the world's leading experts on freshwater resources. "Governments, ngos and local communities must address this problem first - as their top priority," says Gleick, director of the California-based Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security. "There are many tools for doing so, and the economic costs are not high compared to the costs of failing to meet these needs...
...Swiss-born photographer and film-maker who has lived in the United States and Canada for the past half century is now 76, an age which has critics pontificating on his long career. Most agree that Frank was one of the biggest influences on photography and cinema in the 20th century, often referring back to the label Jack Kerouac first stuck to him, "the poet of the camera...
...Mass. Hall living wage sit-in enters its 20th day, faculty members have gone out of their way to help the students occupying the building complete their work, assigning response papers in lieu of section, teaching class outside the windows of Mass. Hall and even smuggling books and tape-recorded lectures into the administrative building-but this aid will have to end with the advent of finals...
Menand sets out to illuminate the development of American “ways of thinking” from the Civil War into the 20th century. The key word is pragmatism, and Menand’s account of the development of modern American thought will inspire and enlighten readers of all academic stripes. The starting point is the Metaphysical Club that met in Cambridge, Mass. for a few brief months in 1872, but the tale goes far beyond that place and moment in time. Menand combines rich and detailed stories of individual American thinkers with wide-ranging and fascinating accounts...
...family issues, put science and health news into perspective, share our enthusiasms (or lack thereof) for movies and TV shows and books. Every so often, we also like to take on an ambitious project that spans several issues, such as our "Time 100: The Most Important People of the 20th Century" and "Visions of the Future: Life...