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Being an environmental activist in China "is sometimes very lonely work," says Wen Bo. The nation's cities choke with smog and many rivers are putrid, yet "people in China just don't think there's a need to protect the environment. Even when I was a student putting up posters for a campus environmental group, people would look at me strangely. They couldn't understand the need for a club that wasn't for Ping-Pong or photography...
...intended, the Core could force students to explore academic areas outside their narrow specialization and ensure that no Harvard student graduated without being exposed to a wide range of general topics.Instead, the Core is often seen as seven obligatory piles of specific, useless knowledge to choke down. Far from expanding their academic horizons, many students trudge through the Core by taking whatever fits their schedule, doing as little work as possible, and adhering to the cram-and-purge school of exam-taking. The Curricular Review promises big changes to all this—eventually.But until that day comes...
...Lebanon once the guns go silent. The U.S. may be calculating that the Lebanese government's desperation to end the fighting that threatens to destroy the country will force it to accept Israeli forces' remaining in southern Lebanon, thereby isolating Hizballah. Israel has the country in an ever-tightening choke-hold, having cut transport links and leaving the county with less than a week's energy supplies to maintain electricity and essential services. The desperation of Lebanon's government is palpable, and Washington appears to be betting that this will drive a wedge between it and Hizballah...
...What happens when the brain drain hits the Federal Trade Commission, which investigates Internet fraud? Or the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which makes sure kids don't choke on toys...
...again.) And it highlights the issue driving this election--one that may have an impact on Americans as well as on the campesinos in Puebla. Mexico's economy is still in the clutches of Big Business barons, who often pay subsistence wages, hog bank credit and investment capital and choke financial oxygen from the medium-size and small businesses that employ two-thirds of Mexico's workers. Half of Mexico's 106 million people live in poverty, yet the country also has 10 billionaires. And economists say chronic disparity is contributing to the U.S.'s population of illegal immigrants: since...