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...socialist President Evo Morales told the U.N. that "if we want to save our planet Earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system." And capitalists polished their image to a green sheen: Macy's unveiled a new solar-power system in San Jose, Calif.; Chevron ran ads extolling the power of "human energy" to save the world...
...Borin, founder of Los Angeles--based College Connections, tells waitlisted student-clients never to send anything extra to admissions offices without asking permission. Generally, colleges welcome updates on grades and achievements, which is what Sarah Brown-Campello, captain of the soccer and lacrosse teams at Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., is sending to her top choice, Dickinson College (she wants small classes and a chance to take Portuguese), along with a new teacher recommendation. Davison's classmate Jordan Vincent, whose heart is set on University of Virginia, has written a new essay on an unusual accomplishment: as a parliamentarian...
...Hispanics like Murillo now constitute 7.9 percent of the student body at Harvard. Although this statistic has grown in recent years, it still feels nothing like her home in Ventura County, Calif., where two-thirds of the population is of Hispanic descent...
...Face it: there's no one fuel panacea, and in the final analysis, humans will have to scale back their numbers to live within a finite-fossil-fuel (or even renewable-fuel) world. And good luck with that. William L. Seavey, Cambria, Calif...
Hometown: Palos Verdes, Calif...