Word: impaction
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...this straight: TIME passed up inventions that save energy, produce energy, make us safer, make our commutes easier, protect us from diseases, reduce our impact on our finite resources and bring knowledge to the Third World to name a cool new cell phone as Invention of the Year? Steve Jordan, GERMANTOWN...
...critical that students are represented on committees that dramatically impact student life .Students bring a different and important perspective to committees dominated by Faculty. Further, it is far preferable to have students sitting on the committee itself than to have a committee of professors seeking out student opinion. Only by having actual student participation can the student perspective have an equal voice at the table, an effect that no amount of outreach by professors can reproduce. Furthermore, outreach by professors is by no means guaranteed—particularly on committees where Faculty members are faceless—and often falls...
...Board, its processes, and its transparency are a pressing concern to undergraduates. Though Harvard may not be a democracy, students should have a voice on issues that so seriously impact them. The College’s attention to this concern is crucial to build unity and trust between the administration and the students. Dean Pilbeam should recognize this by including students on the currently ridiculously secretive Ad Board reform committee...
Though Arab nations as a whole have agreed to show up in Annapolis on Tuesday, it is not yet certain whether Syria will be among them. Thus, the Annapolis conference could end up having a greater impact on keeping the peace in Lebanon than on reaching peace between Israel and the Palestinians...
...Mist, and promoting the movie." And I'm like, "Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan aren't cultural." They aren't political. They're economic only in the mildest sense of the word. In fact, if I had to pick somebody, some celebrity who has had some impact this year, some sort of echo in the larger American life, I would say Hannah Montana. That whole issue of online ticket sales and scalping fascinates me. There are [legitimate] issues there about the Internet, so that actually does seem to have some cultural significance...