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Healing Earth, Healing Ourselves Your article on Darfur clearly spelled out how climate change can generate conflict [May 7]. I don't understand why it is so politically incorrect to say plainly that the world is getting overpopulated and more people need to use birth control. And if the oceans are rising even as various regions lack potable water, why isn't there more discussion about building desalination plants around the world? The U.S. National Security Council and the U.N. always respond to crises like Darfur by sending peacekeepers and money. Why don't they try the more viable solutions...
...were going to write a novel about an expatriate Afghan returning to the land of his birth, the usual way to do it would be, first, return to Afghanistan, and then, second, write a novel about it. Khaled Hosseini did it backward. He wrote the runaway best-seller The Kite Runner first, about an Afghan living in California who returns home to redeem a moment of cowardice from his childhood. Only in 2003, when the book was already done, did Hosseini go back to Kabul, the city where he was born. He hadn't seen it in 27 years...
Behind the successful birth of a new program of general education and cheerful send-offs to Harvard’s departing president, contention reigned at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professors refused to allow universal student evaluations of their courses for the second consecutive year...
...Millennium Development target of a 75% decline by 2015," says Esmat Mansour, head of Primary Health Care at the Ministry of Health and Population MOHP. To achieve that, Mansour says, the focus now is on preventing infant death during the first 28 days of life due to low birth weight, premature birth and inadequate infant care...
Behind the successful birth of a new program of general education and cheerful send-offs to Harvard’s departing president, contention reigned at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professors refused to allow universal student evaluations of their courses for the second consecutive year. Faculty members also turned down the requests of a pleading Undergraduate Council president to reject a new rule that will hold student leaders responsible before the Administrative Board if students suffer “serious harm” because of alcohol abuse at their parties. The rule...