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...What They're Prescribing In Switzerland: Swiss voters have approved the creation of permanent, legalized heroin centers aimed at helping hard-core addicts learn to function in society. Rather than wean users off the drug, the centers will provide them with carefully measured doses twice a day. Somewhat surprisingly, voters rejected the decriminalization of marijuana in the same referendum...
Others argue that this is an unfortunate time for any costly project, but it is shortsighted to ignore the positive potential for job creation and the need to invest in sustainable energy. From the economic crisis to our current dependence on foreign oil, it is undoubtedly clear that the United States needs clean, domestic energy. Estimates have shown that this plant will provide three quarters of the electricity needs for Cape Cod—relief that we need now more than ever...
...other wealthy countries comes not only at the financial cost to consumers, but also at the expense of our environment and many human lives that are lost or degraded needlessly every year. As the dust settles, it seems clear that reckless greed played a leading role in the creation of the current financial disaster. We should all consider our own motives and their far-reaching, indirect effects in light of that calamity...
...cliché about Wall Street and Main Street. Faust’s original letter sounded hopeful yet sober, and we feel the same. For all our complaints and cynicism, universities are in the business of helping people through constant growth—whether it be the creation of new student spaces, money for research, or job creation for community members. When Harvard stops spending, it stops growing; in fact, opportunities shrink. We hate the idea of even a single budget rollback, but we glumly agree with the administration that they are necessary the economic situation we are in.FAS dean Michael...
...Lowell called for the creation of the House system as a way to rescue American educational institutions from becoming merely “automatic brain-fattening machines” that turned out graduates with no inclination toward “hard thinking...