Word: archipelago
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Thomas, who is on campus this semester as a visiting professor at the Kennedy School, transports us to the Philippines in the heat of the Second World War. The archipelago was strategically significant to the Japanese because it stood along a petroleum supply route...
...pictures of a flood of trash floating on a Jakarta river and bike commuters wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic diesel fumes in Kanpur, India. Those are the same scenes we saw in Kitakyushu and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when Japan was notorious as the archipelago of kogai, or environmental disruption. I was one of the victims of the choking smog at that time. Asians are starting to put more pressure on their governments to tackle staggering environmental problems, but time is running out. Having seen Japan recover from its environmental mess, I am confident...
...real. Indonesia faces many of the same problems, such as rampant corruption, cited by Thailand's coupmakers as pretexts for seizing power. And like their Burmese counterparts, the Indonesian armed forces present themselves as the only institution that can hold a nation together?in this case, a fractious archipelago of 220 million people. Despite reforms designed to keep it out of politics, the Indonesian military remains highly resistant to the principle of civilian control...
Last February, the University announced that it had taken the first step in assembling the new archipelago of buildings that will become the Allston campus, Harvard’s gateway to the 21st century. The selection of German architects Berhnisch Architekten for the design of Allston’s first biolab should be commended for recognizing that designing the future requires not only conceptual vision, but also vision on the scale of the built world. Harvard shouldn’t plan our new Allston playground as an ossified artifact of architectural regurgitation. With the innovative Behnisch architects, our new campus...
...flooded with the arrival of makeshift, precarious boats called cayucos or pateras. In the past three days alone, more than 1,300 immigrants have arrived in the Canaries, mostly from countries like Senegal, Mauritania and Cape Verde, bringing this year's total to more than 18,000 in the archipelago...