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Ultimately PlaNYC attempts to chart New York's growth by vastly improving energy efficiency in the city's 950,000 buildings, beefing up public transit and adapting to the impact of global warming. Though PlaNYC is as green as a new fairway - the city is carving out bike lanes and pedestrian plazas and expanding its parks - the deeper motivation is economic. If New York wants to stay on top, it needs to grow sustainably and efficiently, getting more out of less while improving quality of life. PlaNYC could be a model for megacities from Tehran to Tokyo...
...effect, conversely, is to sap the book of any real emotional power. Such descriptions abound in the novel in a flat, monotonous way, and the purely grotesque, after intense repetition, has neither comic nor dramatic value. Thus even those scenes which ought to be most powerful have little impact, as with the death of Senyor, a character of focus for some odd pages: “The blacksmith gave the word for the cement man to commence; they forced open Senyor’s mouth and began to fill it. Senyor’s eyes were bulging; his chest rose...
...senior project as an intern at the Women’s Center. “I’m focusing on the role of pop culture and popular TV on how we view women, because I think that people don’t always realize how much of an impact pop culture has on how we see things,” Wu said. Although shows like Gossip Girl, Nip/Tuck, and Grey’s Anatomy are, first and foremost, forms of entertainment, said OAASIS Director of Communications Jessica J. Wen ’10, they can also have detrimental effects...
...survivor warns, “He’s the one you least expect”; when yet another states, “[I] waited at the hospital in an exam room for three hours waiting for a rape kit and never got one,” the impact that incidents of sexual assault have had on these individuals is undeniable.“Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard,” an artistic and literary magazine published by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), presents raw and powerful first-hand narratives...
...taxation of marijuana. It is estimated that pot is the largest cash crop in California, with annual revenues approaching $14 billion. A 10% pot tax would yield $1.4 billion in California alone. And that's probably a fraction of the revenues that would be available - and of the economic impact, with thousands of new jobs in agriculture, packaging, marketing and advertising. A veritable marijuana economic-stimulus package! (Read "Is Pot Good...