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...called eco-anxiety - free-form worry triggered by concerns about the worsening fate of the planet - and if you suffer from it, you might want to give Lester Brown's new book, Plan B 3.0, a pass. Brown - the president of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental think tank - paints a comprehensive and depressing picture of the planet, with ream after ream of dire statistics. Here's just a handful: Arctic summer sea ice shrinkage increased by 9.1% a decade between 1979 and 2006, and this year an area of ice almost twice the size of Britain melted...
...take a few deep breaths and relax - a little bit. Brown, one of the U.S.'s most respected environmentalists, has a plan - and it's called Plan B. (Hear Brown talk about Plan B 3.0 in this week's Greencast.) After detailing just how screwed our overpopulated, overconsuming world is - thanks to an economic system that rewards production without regard for environmental impact - Brown lays out an alternate path that could save us from the worst consequences of climate change. At the heart is a call to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions 80% by 2020 - far more aggressive than anything...
...Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Jan. 3 news article "Columbia Expansion Approved in NYC" incorrectly stated that Columbia University would build a secondary school that would enroll an equal number of community children and children of Columbia affiliates. In fact, the university has committed to help build a secondary school for math, science, and engineering as part of its expansion into Harlem, but it will not determine which students are admitted...
...French Culture Flourish As a French student, I was quite surprised by many points of your article "In Search of Lost Time" [Dec. 3]. It is true there are no more figures like Camus, Sartre, Satie or Debussy in France. But we have such great artists as Le Clezio, Béjart and Boulez. Even philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is a bit famous in the U.S. Maybe Americans cannot cite French authors, but I don't think many French can cite more than three authors who are not thriller or detective-novel writers. There are many interesting original...
...wishes, Kennedy lost the precinct - and the county. "I remember being in the kitchen a few weeks before that when Ethel Kennedy came to visit our house, campaigning for Ted," James Hogan, Jr., Jimmy's son, recalls chuckling. "Some Kennedy aides were lamenting that Carter could bomb Iowa with B-52s and the caucuses would still go for Carter...