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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...central privilege people will have to give up is the culture of unlimited consumer choice. This doesn’t mean that everyone have to move to hemp farms and clothe children in newspaper diapers. It does, however, mean that people may not be able to eat beef at every meal. It may mean a flight between New York and Los Angeles will become a once-a-decade expense rather than a once-a-week one. It may mean more shopping at the secondhand store. At the heart of this is an epistemological reconfiguring of the current pyramid of economic...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Nothing’s Easy | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...Yard, I ran into her in the Eliot House dining hall, where she was sassily spreading cream cheese onto a bagel at brainbreak. But here, she seemed to be speaking in an entirely different language. “What’s a girl gotta do to get some Hemp-plus granola?” she retorted, stuffing a pack of stale bagels into her navy blue Longchamps bag before darting off to a meeting. A bit confused, I headed back to the library where I was studying with Henry J. Flemings ’09, a friend from class...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Beauty of Bilingual English | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

PHISH to reunite. Hemp futures skyrocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...skateboards, for example, are made of Canadian maple, which takes 50 years to mature. But bamboo is replaced in a tenth of that time. Hence Bob Burnquist, one of the world's top pro skateboarders, and his sponsor Flip have been developing a type of board made of bamboo, hemp and maple that he began using in competition in July. You don't have to go "full, purist radical," Burnquist says. His goal? "Connect the coolness factor to the reality of what's possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green to the Extreme | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...started when I took elementary Mandarin my first year at Harvard. Chinese is an extraordinary language. The sound “ma,” when said with one of four different tones, can mean mother, hemp, horse, or scold. “Mama ma ma” can mean “Mother scolded the horse.” The language relies on the intricacies of tone and the movements of the mouth, tongue, and throat rather than only the sounds...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan | Title: A Comedy of Language | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

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