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...Steve Martin), yet feels somehow empty: no man, no marriage and especially no baby. ?I just don?t like your uterus,? her gynecologist (John Hodgman) tells her, adding that Kate has a one-in-a-million chance of ever getting pregnant. (You should be able to guess Act Three from here.) So she engages Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler), a white-trashy girl from the nearby town of Dreery, to be the child?s surrogate mother. When she breaks up with her loutish boyfriend Carl (Dax Shepard), slobby Angie moves in with neatnik Kate. In social aptitude, one woman...
...impact most strongly those who have had the smallest hand in bringing them about. The wealthy, industrialized West, meanwhile, will largely be able to afford to avoid, adapt to, and rebound from crises. Despite our lower vulnerability to the effects of climate change, we have a moral obligation to act on this issue. Greenhouse gases released at Harvard affect the whole world. In fact, their negative impact is much more likely to be felt in Anchorage or Mumbai than here in Cambridge. Additionally, as one of the most respected institutions of higher education, Harvard’s decisions about climate...
...unprotected sex leads to pregnancy.Shvarts knows this of course. Summing up the crux of her argument—that there is a mistaken conflation of sex and reproduction—she wrote, “It is the intention of this piece to destabilize the locus of that authorial act [of sex for reproduction], and in doing so, reclaim it from the heteronormative structures that seek to naturalize it.” This is the sort of jargon we’ve all come to know very well, the sort that bounces across our email screens daily and is advertised...
...without much more time, research, and development. But there is a third, cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative, for legislators to remove incentives for coal gasification altogether. Massachusetts’s Senators in Washington have proposed a moratorium on all new coal-fired plants, and the state legislature should act consistently with their example.Coal is a dirty source of energy. Coal-fired power plants are responsible for one-third of global CO2 emissions. For all its pretensions to being environmentally friendly, gasified coal is still coal, and no modifications or breakthroughs are going to make it cleaner and financially sensible...
Presencia Latina, Harvard’s Latino cultural show, is intended not only as a showcase for Latino and Latin-American creativity but also as a means of strengthening the entire community within Harvard. The show, which will take place tomorrow, features both traditional and modern acts presented by the winners of the show’s Latino/a of the Year awards: hip-hop artist Daddy Yankee and “America’s Next Top Model” winner Jaslene Gonzalez. The board members of Presencia Latina have been auditioning students, organizing celebrity guest appearances, and promoting...