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...world seems to be largely running in place. The Bonn talks were the first international meeting to be attended by President Barack Obama's climate negotiators - to the palpable relief of the rest of the world that former President George W. Bush's much maligned team was gone - but on the big questions, including how to address carbon reduction in rich and poor countries, tangible progress remained elusive...
Imagine your family, the jobs you’ve had, all of the friendships and relationships that have come and gone in the last 20 years. Now imagine that chunk of your life being ripped away from you for something that you did not do. For many unfortunate individuals, this was a horrifyingly true situation. Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank’s “The Exonerated”—which is making its Harvard debut this weekend—follows the experiences of six people convicted of crimes they did not commit, only to be released...
...environment. As technology has innovated the world, the world—especially the sector which houses, supports, and encourages artistic creation—struggles with the question of how to innovate.“There’s an interesting institutional crisis related to how we’ve gone from an era where information was the main value proposition of most institutions—cultural, educational, industrial,” says Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor David Edwards, “to an era where information is so readily available that innovation becomes what’s valued?...
...capital's suburbs. The publicity drove local authorities to shut down the illegal clinic. While the patients were offered free treatment at local hospitals, for some it was hardly a relief. One patient named Chen Bingzhi told the Beijing News, "We're afraid that after we've gone home for a little while, will there be anyone who cares about us anymore...
...hasn't been made to. Granting the ANC a hefty majority - it won 66% of the vote in the last general election - obviated its need to perform: instead of focusing outwards on improving the living standards of the country, it focused inwards on improving its own. That hasn't gone unnoticed, and notwithstanding Zuma's populist appeal, may now be punished. "They're crooks," declares Lucky Maqutu, 33, an unemployed construction foreman in Mthatha and a volunteer at St. John's Apostolic Faith Mission Church. "Come election day, the ANC better watch out. They're in for a shock...