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Barack Obama represents a profound moral breakthrough in history as well as in human attitudes in America. He is proof that what seemed almost unthinkable yesterday is now possible. Visiting the South in the mid-'50s, I confronted racism not only in the streets but also in the courts. The law itself was racist, ugly, inhuman. I felt shame. Now, 50 years later, America is proud...
...chance that a combination of climate change and increased demand could render Mead effectively dry by 2021. Mulroy doubts Barnett's dire conclusion, but she knows Las Vegas--and the world beyond--faces an existential crisis over water. "This is about being able to survive as a human being," she says. (See pictures of the world water crisis...
...reason for the world's growing water woes is evident in the numbers. The planet fairly sloshes with water--326 quintillion gal. of it--but only 0.014% of that is available for human use. The rest is nonpotable ocean water or inaccessible freshwater, most of it frozen in polar caps. And the available water we do have is far from evenly distributed. About 1.1 billion people have no access to clean water, and half the planet lacks the same quality of water that the ancient Romans enjoyed. And while the amount of water on the planet remains fixed, the number...
...What we’re finding is fewer and fewer people are coming to meetings, so we try to put things online,” said Barbara Allen, the district’s executive director of human resources...
...University and instructor of Harvard’s “Animal Law” course this Spring, told me that animal law’s rise reflects the growing social ferment on animal issues. He predicts that animal law is just the “leading edge of human-animal studies” as the academy—from sociology to religion—catches up with society’s unease with our existing relationship with animals...