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...members of the Harvard community should be more aware of the messages that we send in our publicity materials. We all should live up to the responsibilities that we bear, both to our fellow students and as representatives of the Harvard name. There is no excuse for us to exploit any body’s image in this...
...called a "browser.") The Web has too many distractions in the form of links, e-mails, instant messages and now Twitters. Besides, if a device has a real keyboard, it's for "writing," not reading - the user is primed more for output than input. Amazon was the first to exploit that weakness and is building a billion-dollar business built around a gadget aimed at people who read offline. In fact, it has already supposedly sold more than 500,000 of its $359 e-readers, despite their obvious limitations. (Kindles only do black and white text and can't even...
...took his fortune, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and began steadily buying acre after acre of threatened virgin forest in Chile. But he met with considerable resistance from the Chilean government and media: the idea of a rich gringo going down to South America to protect nature, not exploit it, seemed so absurd to post-Pinochet Chileans that they suspected Tompkins was up to something...
...there any conditions under which you would think it's O.K. to raise animals for food? I do not believe animals are here for us to exploit, and I do not believe that under any circumstances we should raise animals for food. That said, I am very happy Proposition 2 passed in California and that it will phase out extreme confinement of animals, including battery cages for hens...
...dismissing anything new, scorning anything young; and the Beatles were both. (George Harrison, when he and his mates made their Sullivan debut, was younger than Kevin Jonas is now.) In the intervening decades, the mainstream has learned its lesson: not to deride what kids love but to embrace and exploit it. Just like Disney...