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...arguably more urgently than ever, it is incumbent upon us to cast off the shackles of that theology of free-market liberation and come to terms with the actual dynamics of the world we live in. For Harvard students fond of the message that ours is a big burden, it might be pertinent to add that the future of humanity almost certainly rests on the possibility of a radically different world order...
...Barnhill thought immediately of his uncle’s kids and the financial burden his parents would shoulder, as they had before...
...battery power after sunset by gliding down to 10,000 ft. (3,000 m) at night. For as much as one-third of the night, says Piccard, the plane will be able to fly its descending course without engine power. But once it reaches its nighttime cruising altitude, the burden of powering the plane will fall to the batteries alone...
...success stories like this one that will bedevil those attending the Bali conference. One of the central issues will be how to justly allocate the economic burden of reducing greenhouse emissions among industrialized countries - which have grown rich fouling the air and using up natural resources - and developing countries like China, India and Indonesia. "We have to be careful about asking developing countries to lock up their forests," says Taylor of the WWF. That is, at least until the world has found a way to make locking up the forests...
...paying for birth control and paying for textbooks. This may well become the case, however, as many of the three million female college students nationwide who regularly use oral contraceptives have seen their pills’ cost skyrocket. For cash-strapped students, this price increase amounts to a serious burden, one that makes it substantially more difficult for them to afford necessary contraception and is therefore a hindrance to practicing safe sex. The rise in prices is the result of a national law that recently went into effect: the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act. The measure removes incentives for pharmaceutical companies...