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George J. J. Hayward ’11, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Currier House. He is the political action chair of the Black Students Association and a member of the Undergraduate Council...
...says Felipe Arreguin, under director of the National Water Commission. "We had to have the stoppages now to make sure that some supply can continue until the rain in June." The first two partial stoppages in February and March cut off water to hundreds of thousands. In the April action, the entire Cutzamala system will be shut down for 36 hours, before gradually resuming water pumping over several days...
Despite increased awareness of environmental issues generated by “green” campaigns, policy on environmental change is moving slowly, according to three environmental experts who spoke at a panel hosted by International Relations on Campus in coordination with the Environmental Action Committee last night in Sever 113. The three experts tended to agree that the sluggishness on environmental policy derives from both discord among international powers and differing perspectives on how to handle the body of current environmental knowledge. Regardless of the fact that activists have been “yelling” about environmental issues...
...invite Obama to speak at this spring's commencement. Even Cardinal Francis George, who sat down in the Oval Office for a half-hour meeting on St. Patrick's Day that he hoped would "foster fruitful dialogue for the sake of the common good," slammed the school's action, calling it "an embarrassment to Catholics." (Notre Dame has made clear it will not rescind the invitation...
...caution against such nationalistic one-upmanship. Already one-quarter of hospital beds are taken up by people suffering from weight-related ailments such as heart attacks, back surgeries and hip and joint replacements, says Luiz Vicente Berti, president of the Brazilian Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Unless preventive action is taken to educate people, he warns, Brazil faces a sick and expensive future. "If we don't teach people how to eat properly and exercise, then in 10 years no one will have the money to pay the hospital bills that will arise," Berti says, adding that the number...