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...chemistry and chemical biology department.Associate Professor of the History of Science Sarah Jansen focuses on a wide range of historical and scientific issues including the history of life sciences. Her studies have brought her from Germany to Canada and England as well as the U.S.Cabot Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Ann Pearson arrived at Harvard five years ago. She specializes in biogeochemistry.The seven new additions will replace Director of the Harvard Foundation Dr. S. Allen Counter, social psychologist Mahzarin R. Banji, Slavicist Julie A. Buckler, physicist John Huth, historian Lisa M. McGirr, Schreiber, and classicist Richard F. Thomas...
...gift, a restorative vacation, a trip to a wedding - turn dreadfully wrong, not because of the venality of the people who put them in motion but because of the caprices of destiny. The film makes two unarguable points: that, wherever we live, whatever our status, all of us on earth are interdependent; and that, whatever care we take to control things, our lives are ruled by chance...
...that lack of evidence bothers the crusaders. We can’t possibly allow smoking, because bar workers are economically coerced and must suffer under their employer’s terms. Unfortunately, scarcity is a rule on earth, and everyone who needs to work to live is similarly “economically coerced” into their occupation—and some into far more dangerous occupations like commercial fishing or mining. Bartenders and waiters, like fisherman, know the conditions of their employment—presuming that anyone competent enough to carry a dish can find an alternative job?...
...plane windows, Al Gore frowning contemplatively at computer screens, and Al Gore pacing thoughtfully through airport terminals. The man could make playing a kazoo look like meditation. The movie is about the threat of global warming, and it is full of dire predictions and horrifying scenarios for the Earth's future should we not change our fossil-fuel-guzzling ways. Rising sea levels, hordes of refugees, parching draughts: Call it a docu-trauma. Surprisingly entertaining docu-trauma, with at least as much emotional range as The Day After Tomorrow, and with more intentional humor...
...Where on earth does someone get short from? Or I live in Scotland. Where does that come from? It's going back to that shadow you that follows you, me and everyone and will from here until the end of civilization...