Word: developable
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Nevertheless, while the grants are a step in the right direction, Harvard’s responsibilities don’t end there. Harvard needs to bring businesses and infrastructure to ensure long-term growth. A well-cited concern of Allston residents is that Harvard will develop over commercial areas—such as the historic Barry’s Corner—without replacing them with equivalent revenue sources. The university still has a duty to show that it recognizes the needs of Allston’s economy. Additionally, it needs consider smaller but still-pressing concerns, such...
...excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC or of discharging them from service is inconsistent with Harvard’s values as stated in its policy on discrimination,” the handbook states. But Mawn said that changes were needed to help people develop different attitudes on the issue. “People who have no connection to the military have been fed all this anti-military propaganda for years,” he said, adding that today’s media has very few positive things to say about the military...
...Both countries will need to do more - much more - if the U.N. climate-change summit in Copenhagen is to be a success, and they'll need to be more straightforward. But as the EDF's Yarnold said in a speech today, "China is no laggard in the race to develop clean energy and reduce global- warming pollution. In fact, it is moving ahead." If the U.S. isn't careful, it might get lapped...
...IPCC meeting in Copenhagen to replace the ineffective 1997 Kyoto Protocol will be critical for the world’s future, and the U.S. must show initiative in helping to develop a system of short- and middle-term targets and emission reductions for all nations, including developing nations. In such a system, the massively growing nations of China and India will play a critical role. Just as the United States doomed the Kyoto Protocol by rejecting it, the non-participation of any nation in the upcoming Copenhagen talks will sap it of its significance...
...experts that Indonesia's 12,000 pesantran were potential breeding grounds for radicalism. And while suicide bombers and radicals have been traced to a few schools notorious for their extremist teachings, others have been incubators for a more benign trend in the world's most populous Muslim nation: the development of feminist readings of the Quran and Islamic traditions. Indonesia's two largest Muslim political parties - the Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah - have intricate campaigns promoting women's rights. Indonesian feminists, male and female alike, have worked with progressive pesantran to develop women-friendly interpretations of shari'a - a radical break...