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...Cischke said Ford has been developing an all-inclusive business model—financial, social and environmental—to tackle sustainable mobility.“[The model’s] goals are to reduce carbon emissions and secure our energy future,” Cischke said. Ford will begin implementing its short-term goals in 2012, she said.In the past, Cischke has come under fire from some environmental advocates for opposing more stringent fuel economy standards. “It’s as if the Yankees promoted manager Joe Torre to reach...
This collaboration continues through dialogue that happens daily—through task force and construction mitigation meetings, the comprehensive survey and needs assessment that will inform future programs and partnerships, and the countless informal conversations between Harvard’s staff and the community. As we begin more in-depth planning, these interactions will continue to guide our thinking...
...Wright's inflammatory statements in the past week forced Obama to make a renunciation that undermined the credibility of his well-received Philadelphia speech on race, in which he explained why he listened to Wright's speeches to begin with. "The difficulty people would have is precisely that: if he has been going to that church for a long time how could he not know?" says Scott Keeter of the Pew Research Center. The question now for Obama is which is worse - people thinking you agree with Wright, or people not believing your high-minded explanations for associating with...
...tradition of top Harvard scientists writing popular books did not begin with Randall: the famous paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould won widespread acclaim for his essays on popular science and his bestselling books on evolutionary biology, a tradition that has been continued by scientists like psychology professors Marc D. Hauser and Steven A. Pinker, who have written a combined 7 books on cognitive psychology...
Indeed, one of the reasons that Pinker takes issue with the term “pop science” is that other terms that begin with the prefix—”pop music,” “pop culture”—have consumers that are not in the same demographic as his readers...