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...that ubiquitous Harvard-freshman identity crisis. Only the EAC remained. In a bizarre twist of fate, I had become its co-chair by my freshman spring. The previous fall, we had worked tirelessly on a referendum calling for an optional termbill fee that would go towards wind energy. To boost publicity, I built an eight-foot windmill with my bare hands. We yelled, we postered, we e-mailed, and the referendum passed with a resounding 82 percent of the vote. That spring, however, the administrators all shook their heads in unison. President Summers even issued a special fiat expressly forbidding...
...their campus operations and on the environmental ethics of their investment practices. The report gave Quadlings something to be proud of: shuttles that run on biodiesel were cited as a strength of Harvard’s campus operations. On the investment side, Harvard’s rank got a boost from the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a review board that evaluates the ethics of companies in which Harvard invests. Sustainable Endowments Institute President Mark A. Orlowski is quick to commend the committee, but insists it has a ways to go before being a model. “The Committee...
...first, the challenge is spotting the buggers. NASA needs to reshuffle its cash to fund the larger project, or Congress—which two years ago asked NASA to come up with a comprehensive search-and-destroy plan—needs to boost the space agency’s budget accordingly. And NEO-spotting is still a long-term project. We can catalog all the dangerous asteroids in the next few decades, but comets are more troublesome, since they come shooting from the dark reaches of the outer solar system. We’d have substantially less warning?...
...imbibers. A styrofoam cup from Dunkin’ Donuts screams proletariat, whereas a paper one from Starbucks announces to the world that you value the finer things in life—in this case, single origin, shade-grown coffee beans. Coffee, for you, is more than a crude caffeine boost...
...while you can’t really fault a network for doing what it needs to do to try and boost ratings, the issues that most capture the hearts and minds of the people in this country cannot be captured on vinyl or CD. Hip-hop, as much as I love it, is no Iraq war, no global warming, and no abortion debate. It’s just music...