Word: environmentalism
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...play catch-up on another front: the environment. Three decades of rapid, unchecked economic growth has turned many of the country's rivers into cesspools and lands into wastelands and much of its air into grimy soup. Some $30.9 billion has been officially allocated under the stimulus plan for "environmental projects" to help clean up the mess and put the country on a path to more sustainable development. The government of Jiangsu province, for example, recently announced a $16 billion plan to clean up Lake Tai, once famed for its beauty and abundant fish but now better known...
But in the long term, the Pakistani frontier can be safe only when the tribes are more favorably disposed toward the U.S. and the Pakistani government than toward the militants. The U.S. hopes that can be achieved by supplementing the drones with development aid, much of it earmarked for the...
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them,” Bernard Berenson, class of 1887, once said. And surely he must have believed in them. Though he began his life as a displaced Lithuanian immigrant, Berenson wound up a regent in the court of his own...
In 1972 he was arrested at an anti-war protest. He has been called a Marxist and a radical. But in 1968 Stephen A. Marglin ’59 was one of the youngest professors to ever be granted tenure. Today, he is the last of a dying breed?...
2. Global Warming The House last week passed its version of landmark climate-change legislation, which the Senate is scheduled to pick up this summer. On his website, Franken declares his support for renewable energy: "I think we need a new 'Apollo project' - this time to fundamentally change our energy...