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...breeding like locusts, filling all available space and devouring available resources. The planet can't sustain such population growth, particularly when everyone understandably aspires to a First World lifestyle. Tackling this problem raises difficult ethical and sociological issues, but if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable. Dick Keane Dublin

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...locusts, filling every available space and devouring all available resources. The planet simply cannot sustain such population growth, particularly when everyone understandably aspires to a First World lifestyle. Tackling this problem raises difficult moral, ethical and sociological issues. But if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable. Dick Keane Dublin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Your Way Around Your Brain | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...John L. Ashbery ’49 and Frank R. O’Hara ’50 managed to become literary giants without participating in undergraduate writing workshops. In a department devoted to criticism and analysis, does the creative writing program serve a purpose? DICK AND JANEFor the many students that apply, creative writing workshops offer the tempting combination of access to instructors who are eminent in their fields and the valuable opportunity to develop their craft. The workshops are seminar-sized courses in which students read and critique one another’s work under the guidance...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Track of One’s Own | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

Vice-President Dick Cheney may not seem like the most reassuring of people, but on his trip to Japan, which began on Feb. 20 and ends Feb. 22, that's exactly that he was tasked with doing: reassuring Tokyo that the U.S.-Japan relationship was still strong. Normally that wouldn't be a difficult mission. And today in a speech on board the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, anchored off Yokosuka Naval Base near Tokyo, Cheney declared, "Relations between our two countries have never been better than they are today." The problem is, that's not quite true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan Is Unhappy with the U.S. | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...Bush already had assured Olmert that the U.S. will never deal with the new government until Hamas softens its stance by recognizing the Jewish state's right to exist and renouncing violence. That is an apparent reflection of an important faction in the Administration - one led by Vice President Dick Cheney - that has been urging Rice to express disapproval of the "unity" government. Asked about the Olmert-Bush conversation, Rice said, "I am not going to get into what private discussions were between the President and the Prime Minister. I will just tell you that U.S. policy on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The No-Talk Peace Talks | 2/18/2007 | See Source »

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