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...walking initiative, which came about as a way to align the campus’s environmental well-being with community health, is a part of Sustainability Week. Organizers hope that more walking will drive home the possibility of avoiding fuel-burning transportation...
...obligation. “Sustainability obliges us in material and metaphorical ways to nurture our resources and live within our means,” he said. “But a commitment to sustainability goes beyond that obligation and encourages us to make ethical commitments as citizens that align our material needs to our moral ends.” Waters, who founded the renowned restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., as well as a non-profit cooking and gardening program for middle school students in the Berkeley area, spoke of her belief that “food is woven into...
...Research Center, Indians remain among the most pro-American people in the world, with 71 percent of Indians holding a favorable view of the United States. But mutual admiration does not change the simple fact that the U.S. and India have different sets of interests. While these sometimes align with global interests, as they have in the war on terror, or just align with each other, as the recent strengthening of alliances in the face of China’s rise, there are other instances when their interests are diametrically opposed...
Meanwhile, not only are regulators scrutinizing steep pricing models, but in this post-Vioxx era, agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are also requiring more and more testing. That has led many firms to consult regulators much earlier in the R&D process. "You must align expectations as early as you can with the FDA," Roche CEO Severin Schwan says. "It leads to a much more efficient, effective use of resources on both sides...
While this move was seen by many to re-align Harvard with the policies at two other top law schools, Jacob Eisler, a second-year student, said he was concerned at Harvard’s willingness to conform...