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Besides, all this fuss about bringing more campus events to the Quad ignores the fact that the Quad has great events to begin with. As an example, consider my enduring bitterness at being turned away from last year’s Pfoho 90s dance because of a crowd that exceeded capacity. Backstreet was back, and I was stuck outside. It was positively (heaven and) Hell...
...think the underground is really stagnant right now, it seems like no one knows what to do. You got a group of people that are stuck in the ’90s, trying to remake all that ’90s stuff, beats sounding like old [DJ] Premier...
...find ways of reducing the amount of stuff we put out in the environment. And we're not reducing pollution in the U.S. by increasing it someplace else. We operate with the same standards in China, India or Turkey that we do in the U.S. In the late '90s we had meetings with activist groups. Jimmy Carter came in for a round of the dialogues. It became so obvious from those talks that there were big problems to be solved. Our science, properly applied, could really play a role there...
...size problem became evident in the '90s, investors began shifting to index funds, where good ideas don't matter. Index funds buy all stocks in a benchmark like the S&P 500 or any of hundreds of others. They guarantee market-matching returns, are hugely popular and make sense for most people. That makes the heady growth at American Funds all the more noteworthy: the company offers not a single index fund, dismissing them as vehicles for guaranteed mediocrity. "We think you can do better," says Jim Rothenberg, one of nine managers of Growth Fund of America. What's more...
...Global Health hero she truly is. I appreciate her efforts and those of all the others fighting hard to eradicate dangerous diseases. Uche Iwuamadi Lagos Bono's expectant and optimistic essay on how to fight disease in poor countries set just the right tone. In the '80s and '90s, TV commercials depicting dirty, hungry children were detrimental to aid work abroad. Instead of rousing Americans into action, such images made them feel powerless. Work on improving health in the developing world is just that: a job that humanitarian workers, scientists and philanthropists undertake with realistic expectations. It has been...