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...which means the Great Science Section that works here. Dick Thompson, who is based in Washington, wrote "Can We Save California?" Fred Golden, a TIME contributor, handled "Will We Meet E.T.?" Madeleine Nash, our senior science correspondent, has just finished a book on El Nino, so she was the ideal choice to write "Will We Control the Weather?" Leon Jaroff, who used to do Phil's job as science editor before becoming the founding editor of Discover magazine, wrote "Will a Killer Asteroid Hit the Earth?" (Leon is such a firm believer in this danger that the International Astronomical Union...
...acted the way Frank Sinatra did, as an intuitive extension of the complex persona she had first painstakingly built up with her voice alone. When Hollywood finally slammed its doors in her drug-raddled face, she moved into concert halls and sang her way back to superstardom. An ideal biography would have had something memorable to say about that molten mezzo voice and the shrewd musical mind behind...
...guess where this argument is heading. During the Ice Ages, when our own species emerged, human populations were small and scattered and were continuously disrupted by climatic fluctuations. Conditions were ideal for genetic innovation. Today, however, the human population is 6 billion and mushrooming and increasingly densely distributed. At the same time, individual humans are incomparably more mobile than ever before. Efficient communication means that, for example, American males can advertise for wives in journals distributed halfway around the globe...
...short, the past four days have provided more than ample cause for us all to take a step back from the seemingly ceaseless dot-com hoopla and review where we stand. The party may not be over, but now seems like an ideal time to put down the champagne for a few moments and toss back a glass of ice-cold water. While sobriety is most sorely lacking in the nation's financial quarters, this campus could also benefit from some reasoned reflection on the state of the New Economy...
...stake. Such a process, built on the foundation of a living wage policy, is Harvard's best hope of avoiding the empty ostentation, ridiculous disparity and for-profit corporate mentality that threatens to consume the other purposes to which it is charged, like the advancement of the democratic ideal and the construction of a moral community. It is to these later objectives that the Living Wage Campaign commits itself this afternoon at the rally in Harvard Yard...