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...increasing renewable power 20% and reducing overall energy consumption 20%. Many Western European nations like France, which is currently the head of the E.U., favor the measure, but newer, poorer countries like Poland - and big industrial powers like Germany - are doubtful. If the E.U. can't present a unified front at Brussels, it won't be able to do so in Poznan. "You can see the U.S. and China moving [on climate change]," said Nicholas Stern, a leading British climate economist, at Poznan. "We will destroy or undermine that movement if we go flaky in Europe...
...What kind of books?JK: Oh, usual children’s books: Cherry Ames, Nancy Drew. I had a Bible, which I read all the time and a dictionary my mother gave me for my seventh birthday and I read it as a book.FM: You read the dictionary front to back?JK: Yes! I still do. And collect dictionaries. It had a great influence on my writing.6. FM: What do you read, besides the dictionary, today? JK: I like to read about the lives of plant collectors and mountaineers. I like accounts of people climbing mountains though I myself...
...lifted, students can evolve past the high school mentality of learning solely for the sake of a final grade, said professor of applied biology Ralph Mitchell.Freshman seminars also allow first-years to build intellectual relationships with their professors.“Instead of a professor standing in front of an audience and essentially performing, the freshman seminar is an interaction between the faculty member and the student,” said Mitchell, who teaches a seminar entitled “Germs.”Freshman Seminar Program Department Administrator Corinna S. Rohse described the program’s courses, which...
...Last June, University President Drew G. Faust rose in front of Memorial Hall to give her first address at commencement, the University’s most symbolically significant ceremony of the year. The historian chose in this historical moment not to make an abstract address about the location of Harvard and its students in the world, but instead to present a political case for the tax-exempt status of the endowment. It was, all told, an eloquent and well-argued speech, drawing a clever equivalence between the strength of our ledger books and the munificence of our deeds...
...center of Yazd, a handful of adherents sway to the cadence of ancient Persian prayers recited as a priest feeds sticks of sandalwood and sprinkles of frankincense into a blazing urn. Zoroastrians wear hand-woven wool cords as external symbols of their faith, and almost always pray in front of a fire, which represents purity and sustainability. In Yazd, the holy flame has burned for 1,500 years without ever being extinguished. While Zoroastrianism was once the dominant religion in a swathe of territory spanning from Rome and Greece to India and Russia, the number of adherents has dwindled exponentially...