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...lack of hard metrics for measuring these things makes it awfully easy for companies to gin up their equations and then brag about their green cred. But even the most cynical p.r. departments know that that's hardly a long-term solution. Climate change is already having a serious financial impact on business. Julie Gorte, a vice president for the mutual fund Pax World, points out that nearly half of the top-100 companies in the S&P 500 reported that their earnings had been affected by Hurricane Katrina--the kind of superstorm scientists believe will become more common...
...yoga teacher, I was taken aback by the article, "When Yoga Hurts" [Oct. 15]. I fear its lack of balance might scare people away from a practice that offers far more benefits than drawbacks. Yes, yoga--like spinning and running--can be harmful if practiced incorrectly, but its history of more than 5,000 years and its millions of practitioners worldwide attest to its benefits. Besides building strength and flexibility, yoga has been shown to have a positive effect on depression, anxiety, insomnia and core physiology...
...speech itself, it was polite, if unpolished. The purpose was to fault the lack of student input in administrative decisions, which he associated with citizenship, as in: “This denial of citizenship must end now!” (Polite, somewhat confused, applause.) From “one president to another,” Ryan A. Petersen ’08 continued, possibly without irony, “change does not come easily to these hallowed grounds...
...that exact quality of a business—to be above all else, unique—that so many design labels lack today. Yet although creativity usually does bode well for revenues, sometimes even that fails to bring home the dough...
...turns” in efforts for change, said Petersen, and “this process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship—must end now.” Petersen’s point was a valid and important one. The lack of student input in major university decisions continues to affect the community. For example, as Petersen pointed out the Administrative Board, an assembly of more than 30 faculty and administrators that adjudicates “academic regulations” and “standards of social conduct...