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...however, it will be too late. However, I should note that the scientific community is almost unanimous in its findings about the global effects of increasing carbon emissions and the threat of subsequent environmental disasters. The Earth is extremely delicate and relatively small changes can throw off its equilibrium. As a human race we cannot wait to discover the exact consequences of our actions. For example, in 1998, sudden flooding in China’s Yangtze basin due to deforestation caused over $20 billion worth of damage. Nobody could have been sure that this flooding would have occured until...
...method of restructuring the mind, breaking habitual patterns of thought and creating seeds of balance to oppose erratic mood swings. Over time it can provide great mental-health benefits: relief from ordinary anxiety and depression, better rest and sleep, and increased resistance to disturbing influences on emotional equilibrium. Meditation has also proved quite valuable in preparing patients for surgery (see following story...
...than I make in a year. Are the professors not up to the task of investment management? Harvard’s philosophy of hiring faculty suggests that these faculty should be replaced by those money managers whose value is so clearly indicated by their Brobdingnagian, social-equilibrium-shattering pay packages...
Steven M. Goldstein, co-director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, described the current state of cross-strait relationships as an “equilibrium resulting from stalemate” in which “neither side can achieve its maximal goals...
...zero-sum game, he said. We dont always have winners and losers... There are equilibrium points that help everyone...