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...controversies that surrounded state-mandated birth control in countries like China, with its one-child policy. Though simple arithmetic will tell you that the bigger the global population becomes, the harder it will be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you rarely see the population connection made explicit in major environmental reports. "Environmentalists came to realize how complicated and sensitive this issue was," says Robert Engleman, vice-president for programs at the Worldwatch Institute, and the author of the new book More: Population, Nature and What Women Want. "People didn't want to tell their neighbors and friends how to have...
Novelist Michel Houellebecq became one of France's best literary exports with his bad-boy attitude, and writing so raw and explicit that it could make even the saltiest readers blush. Now, to Houellebecq's presumed chagrin, the world is finding out where he got his in-your-face attitude: from his mother. In what has to be the consummate nightmare of any male with a fearless reputation, Houellebecq is getting a very public spanking from his own mother - and, man, is she one hacked-off lady. Even worse for the 50-year-old Houellebecq: she is showing the same...
...labor force were the definition of prosperity, then black tenant farmers would have been defined as more prosperous than their white landlords. Second, though a greater proportion of blacks may have been in the labor force before the movement, the majority of their jobs were low paying. However, as explicit racism ebbed (allowing for more prosperity or wage equality), fewer blacks had to participate in the labor force to make the same adjusted income. Third, the decrease in labor participation most likely has been a result of the unwillingness of whites to relinquish the best jobs to blacks no longer...
...Communism have been hot topics on the campaign trail recently because of Barack Obama’s infamous “bitter” comments. William Kristol ’73, a sometimes Harvard lecturer and a new addition to the Times’ opinion page, made the connection explicit in a column titled, “The Mask Slips.” With McCarthyite overtones everywhere, Kristol compares Obama to Marx, quotes a little German, and makes sure to reference San Francisco. The message, though cloaked in academic language, is clear: the real Obama is a German Commie...
Though Scanlan said he did not know the details of Mailer’s sex life, the English professor said any explicit description of the writer’s sexuality would shed light on Mailer’s fiction, which often directly explores...