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Nine billion [people] isn't going to work - not unless we come up with utterly free or cheap and abundant zero-emission energy, and I've written enough about energy to know that ain't around the corner. It's been five or 10 years away - as long as I've been looking at it. I think we can survive and will, and could do it in a manageable way. But until we start taking steps, people will be more and more frightened about what we're facing - and that's why you're seeing this spate...
...view of the blackboard. The fierce desert wind howls through the holes and threatens to tear the class's one textbook from the students' hands as they pass it around for reading lessons. There is no playground or running water. The toilet, a pit latrine located at the far corner of the school compound, serves 1,500 students. Only two of the 23 female teachers have graduated from high school. Half the second-grade students, ranging in age from 7 to 12, can read; the rest just recite from memory. The freedom to study is a blessing, but Sarwary knows...
...lived in Costa Rica, a friend in the U.S. asked for my mailing address. I jokingly gave the directions in Spanish as the locals would explain it: "From the Lourdes Church in Montes de Oca, two blocks west, past the Pali supermarket, take a right at the next corner where an old woman sells fruit, past the Bar Maguey to the end of the dead-end street, where the gringos live. Costa Rica, Central America." His letter actually arrived...
...suffered his biggest failure there--Crystal Pepsi, which he still contends was the right idea at the wrong time--he was handed the reins to the KFC and Pizza Hut units in 1996. He chronicled a childhood spent in 32 trailer parks and an otherwise unconventional path to the corner office in a 2007 book titled The Education of an Accidental...
...identity the suspect so that an arrest can be made,” the advisory said. The robbery was the second attack on a Harvard affiliate made public in a HUPD advisory this month. A female staff member reported being accosted by a man on the corner of Plympton and Mill Streets on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 5. She said that he pulled her hair and punched her in the face while attempting to take her purse, according to the police. She fought back, and the suspect fled...