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...million copies last year. (About nine million copies have been exported to Africa, other parts of Asia and Central Europe.) For a country whose religious oppression tends to make more international headlines than its exhibitions of tolerance, that stands as a significant achievement. But it also highlights the gap between China's officially sanctioned churches and the illegal "house" churches that exist outside the limited sphere of religious freedom in China...
While there are already international carbon trading schemes that help rich countries pay for reductions in carbon emissions from power or industry in poorer nations, no such mechanism exists for avoided deforestation. That nations are not compensated for protecting their forests has been a huge gap in anti-climate change efforts, and one that has to be resolved if the world is ever to achieve the kind of large-scale reductions in carbon emissions needed to avert catastrophic climate change. "Forests are the elephant in the living room," says Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Project and a forestry...
...slept with as many women as possible,” he says with a laugh, mentioning that Cox is legendary for his reckless lifestyle. But seriously, folks: “I prepare in different ways for every part. I usually try to fill in the gaps in my mind and in areas where I don’t have a lot of experience,” he says. “Whether it’s a swordfisherman or a pornstar—I just fill in the gaps.” Beyond his routine “gap-filling...
...Kwong believes that Giuliani can cut through partisan political divides—particularly at Harvard. “He’s the best candidate to close the liberal and conservative gap that we have on campus, especially on this campus where people are socially liberal and fiscally conservative,” Kwong says over lunch in the Lowell House dining hall...
Despite several campaigns over the past 20 years to create a program in Asian-American studies, Harvard remains without a single full-time professor in the field. But while this gap may take time to fill given the recent downturn in humanities faculty hiring, improving Harvard’s pedagogical offerings in Asian American studies would be far easier. While we support the creation of an Asian American studies track for secondary concentrators in East Asian studies—a move that seems increasingly likely—the creation of such a secondary field would open up the door...