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...personal gain for individuals. Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is a member of CGS. “While there are a number of findings showing that people with more advanced degrees tend to be better citizens, teach their children more about public affairs, etc., what we wanted to do in this report was show the many ways that people with graduate degrees from U.S. universities have contributed to the public good,” said Stuart Heiser, spokesman for CGS. Dean of GSAS Allan M. Brandt said he agreed with the content...
...issues that students have the most power to affect are the ones that are most often overlooked: college governance, undergraduate education, expansion into Allston, staff workers’ pay and treatment, etc. There seems to be an inverse relation between the closeness to which an issue hits students and their commitment to specific issues...
...more politics than it is cost. The FAA is a rule-making agency. When you've got to do rule-making, politics get involved, and then it's hard to decide which equipment, whose company gets mandated, etc. And it's not necessarily just the lawmakers that complicate the process, but all the stakeholders: the airlines, general aviation, corporate aviation and then the government's air traffic control. To do nothing is a lot easier...
...future of agriculture because of economic reasons, not animal welfare. According to the UN, in 2002, one-third of the global cereal harvest was fed to livestock . Roughly 75 to 95 percent of that food is lost to animal metabolism or the growth of inedible cells (hair, bones, etc). This high energy-cost method of producing meat cannot continue to supply food—especially for a global population that the U.S. Census Bureau estimates to reach 9.3 billion persons by 2050. If the level of affluence and food security is to be maintained, then a new strategy to supply...
Which brings us back to a basic question: How strong a dollar do we actually want? Over time, a currency's value reflects an economy's fundamentals--how well a country allocates resources, how productive its workers are, how it contains inflation, etc. So in that sense, a strong currency is reflective of a strong economy. It's something any country would want...