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...Harvard promised some time ago that the Project Labor Agreement would be the precursor to a larger discussion of University-wide discretion on the hiring process," says Mark L. Ehrlich, business manager of Local 40. "To date, that hasn't really happened...
With the end of the cold war, nuclear apocalypticism has gone out of fashion. The vacuum is amply filled by the eco-catastrophists. The late '60s featured Paul Ehrlich's huge best seller, The Population Bomb, an astonishingly wrongheaded prediction of the End brought on by overpopulation -- by 1983. In the '70s, the Club of Rome predicted, with hilarious imprecision, a coming doomsday of uncontrollable pollution, wild overpopulation and resource depletion (by 1992, for example...
Those joining Strong on the new executive board include Vice President John B. King '96, Co-Chairs Justin P. O'Brien '94, and Deirdre A. Long '94, Treasurer Monica E. Antezana '96 and Secretary Andrew J. Ehrlich...
...Ehrlich, who called himself a "fresh face" with "practical experience," was one of seven first-years elected to the 12-member board...
...Malthusians, however, have consistently underestimated how much the technological wonders of the green revolution -- along with the ability of farmers to make good money growing crops -- can spur food production. Ehrlich and Brown have long predicted that food prices would rise as agricultural production fell short of demand, and they have been wrong. India, where 1.5 million people died in a 1943 famine, became a grain exporter by 1977, even as it doubled its population. Farmers planting short, seed-laden wheats developed by Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug at CIMMYT had to post guards to protect the riches in their fields...