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...environmentalist, but he is a born steward of natural resources," says EDF's Grossman, who pointed to Salazar's work to broker a compromise on offshore oil drilling. Obama noted that Salazar's family has farmed and ranched on the same land in Colorado for five generations, giving him firsthand knowledge of the West that other candidates to lead Interior - like the respected Representative Jay Inslee of Seattle - might lack. "You need someone who has the land in their soul," says Sharon Buccino, the director of NRDC's land program. "Salazar does...
...private actions should match his public promises. All the policy initiatives in the world will not fully solve America’s education problem if the rich and powerful are able to flee the public school system into $25,000-a-year private schools. Politicians need to see problems firsthand as parents and PTA members, not by reading statistics. And surely concessions could be made to make a public-school arrangement suitable and safe for both the Obama children and their parents...
...years later, the small-group experience of a freshman seminar still stands in stark contrast to first-year schedules otherwise inundated with large introductory lecture courses in a crowded Sanders Theatre or the Science Center.Now the director of the Freshman Seminar Program and Mather House master, Nadaff says her firsthand experience as a student and instructor in the program has demonstrated to her the importance of establishing close contact with faculty and developing intellectual habits to navigate the demanding academic challenges at Harvard.When it began in 1959, the program only allowed students to apply by invitation. Although it has moved...
...This summer, the students from the group traveled to Tanzania with the support of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and the Idea Translation Lab to experience Africa firsthand and test their technology: microbial fuel cells, devices that convert chemical energy to electrical energy, and light emitting diodes...
Walter E. Howell ’09, the student director of “Diálogo Latinoamericano,” who is also a Crimson sports editor, described the discussion series as “a forum in which students coming back from experiences seen firsthand, dealing with these issues, can share their stories...