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...year. Those parents pious or savvy enough to attend church have a shot at getting their kids into a state-funded religious school, for decades a refuge of the aspirational classes. Rising private-school fees - up over 40% in the last five years - have triggered a groundswell of faithful behavior. "It's pray or pay," parents mutter to one another. I've attended baptisms of people who may be secularists, but are fervent believers in the right to decent schooling for their children...
...People need somewhere else to go, and that cannot be Central Square.” Reeves described seeing unfamiliar people pushing shopping carts full of blankets around Central Square recently and congregating around city benches for hours at a time. He also recounted reports of illegal behavior, specifically from store owners who have told him there is prostitution in the area. In April, the city announced that the 2008 homelessness census showed a 10 percent increase in the number of people without homes in Cambridge. The upswing in local homelessness coincides with a wider state trend. The Associated Press reports...
...support both the environment and job creation and whether “green-collar jobs” will be successful. “New technology initiatives do not create jobs in depressed areas,” she said. Jasanoff concluded by emphasizing the need for fundamental shifts in U.S. behavior and ideology. “Just seeing the United States come out of this stagnant, backward-looking, imperialist period will hopefully inspire Americans,” she said. Jonathan M. Kaufman ’12 said he agreed with Jasanoff that the environment is a vital issue in the upcoming...
...showing its will to make environmentalism a social movement and a subject for serious student involvement on campus. However, the extent of this social movement has been limited so far. To instill lasting habits for emissions reduction among students, Harvard must increase efforts to encourage more environemtnally friendly behavior in daily life...
...Harvard has stuck with its core business as a place of education and decided to make cutting GHG emissions a campus-wide social effort to some extent, not just one for engineers and construction workers. However, in order to make environmentalism a unifying social cause on campus, and ingrain behavior that reduces GHG emissions, Harvard will have to take steps to strengthen and expand its current environmental outreach efforts...