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They promised city officials that agricultural runoff wouldn't be a problem because they would use environmentally safe growing methods. And to those who objected to natural drainage, Corbett argued that cities had been built around that concept for centuries before modern techniques came in. As for financing, Corbett finally got help from a small local bank by not telling it about all the ecology business. The only major idea that had to be dropped was a plan to recycle sewage through underground pipes to nourish the orchards. The public health department refused to bend...
...artistic work on love comes from the pens of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The number of Beatles' ditties with "Love" in the title is astounding. Thus, it seems that the Beatles' catalog would be the natural place to start for those seeking out love, or at least the concept behind it, this Valentine...
Most troubling is the concept that it is the institution's responsibility to see that every student--every single one--feel a certain way. Harvard is a land of opportunity and tries to help students make choices; the help is not as good as it should be, I think, and better advising is an important objective. But ensuring that students feel a certain way about their choices does not seem to me a rational goal...
...after Ed and I were married in 1970, we were not in a position to have any children," she says. "I saw Paul VI as representative of a very conservative Vatican. Obviously these people weren't out in the trenches." Like many American Catholics, Betty and Ed embraced a concept extolled by liberal American clerics: "We heard, 'a matter of conscience,'" she says, "and we declared birth control to be one. We would decide it according to our own good consciences and the Pope could go...be a Pope...
Following the Lampoon tradition of innovationand subtlety, this parody's writers hit upon acutting-edge concept: bathroom humor...