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...Another of those modern comforts comes into view when one or another techie CEO implies that the Internet’s crawl around the globe has been to its unqualified great benefit and enlightenment. But few who have read through the hateful comments under YouTube videos could endorse this Panglossian perspective on the new media; the web has for many some evident kinks and tangles...
...fact, the Peterson Institute's study - which includes a survey of 1,300 refugees from the North living in China - shows that the North has been as vulnerable to rising food prices as anyone else on the globe. (Starting in 2002 the regime allowed market prices for food to prevail for much of the country, though the military and government workers continue to get subsidized food supplies). The result, according to the "fragmentary" evidence compiled by the Peterson Institute, has been a tripling of food prices just in the last year - a run-up so sharp that it signals...
...Over a decade ago, The Boston Globe reported that Harvard had bought 52 acres of land in Allston under a subsidiary with a different name—an action that residents still refer to as an example of Harvard’s underhanded approach to expanding. Neighbors also point to Harvard’s land swap with the owner of the Charlesview Apartment complex—where the University will fund development without involving themselves in the actual development planning—as another instance of Harvard’s head-in-the-clouds approach...
...Pacific on Friday morning, and who died from blood loss a few minutes later, probably before his swimming companions could pull his snow-white body to shore. His family had agreed to speak to the media after two days of mostly respectful but unsettlingly urgent requests from around the globe for shark-kills-man details. Something like 100 news outlets had telephoned...
...Ideally, we should abandon the idea of continents altogether, turning from the familiar, but distorted, Mercator projection to a Dymaxion map. The commonly used Mercator projection developed in 1568 maps the globe on a rectangular, flat surface which stretches vertical distances. Conversely, the Dymaxion map, developed by former Harvard poetry professor and visionary, R. Buckminster Fuller, projects Earth’s surface onto a polyhedron, minimizing distortion. Not only do Dymaxion maps more accurately represent geography, they also avoid placing countries in accordance with the north-is-good, south-is-bad formula implicit in the tendentious original Mercator. In fact...