Word: generationã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Speaking at MIT on Oct. 26, President Obama besought MIT students and students at colleges all across America to tackle the “challenge of their generation?? by pursuing research in alternative fuel sources and technologies and other methods of combating climate change and obtaining independence from foreign sources of oil. We appreciate the president’s calling upon young people to engage the critical issue of energy independence and hope that students at MIT and other universities answer this call. We also endorse the current effort on Capitol Hill to pass climate-change legislation. However...
Citing examples of energy research he saw at MIT, Obama called on young people to undertake “the challenge of their generation?? at a time when critics of the proposed energy and climate legislation attempt to block its passage...
...time when myths and half-truths pose serious threats to intelligent discourse and one of the greatest problems of our generation??health care—must be engaged with seriously, these schoolyard antics on the part of both Fox and the White House neither are politically expedient nor do they move debate forward. The White House should take Fox’s deliberate deceptions seriously, but there are more intelligent ways to deal with lies than picking a fight that can’t be won at a reasonable cost. For now, the focus should be on what...
Recreating the new generation??s omnipresent fascination with punk may have seemed like an interesting way to refashion the old, but “Concepts” falls short with neither a sense of indie direction nor punk authority. The naïveté of Little Girls shows on its debut album, but credit should be granted to McIntyre and company for attempting to combine old post-punk with new alternative, even if precociously...
...Politics has been like this for probably all my generation??s time. My grandparents fondly tell me of an age when the political climate wasn’t characterized by hysterical soundbite-sized protests and “patriotic” bashing of public officials. Perhaps, once upon a time, such an erudite era did exist. In any case, I can’t speak to that part of the past...