Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...besides ourselves? I recall one of my professors distinctly claiming that passing down an earth depleted in biodiversity to our grandchildren would be immoral. The loss of biodiversity has been a result of human encroachment on novel landscapes: as our populations grow exponentially, so does the need for inhabitable land which leads us to colonize new environments and displace or eradicate the local animal and plant species...
...order to provide land and livelihoods to otherwise rootless farmers. Thus a counter-claim can be made to my professor's original claim, that it would be even more immoral for us to bequeath to posterity a world in which poverty and starvation are pervasive. We can see from these contrasting claims why many consider concern for the environment to be a luxury among those whose basic human needs are met and thus not as morally incumbent a cause as the fight against hunger and destitution...
...Take, for example, one of Harvard's most influential innovator-alums, Edwin Land. As an undergraduate, Land invented the polarizing filter: layered sheets of plastic that block waves of light moving in certain directions. The Faculty was so impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film...
...Pennypacker. The four-story beer funnel has long been a tradition among Union dwellers. These 40 feet of tattered tubing, duct-taped where needed and capped with a simple plastic funnel, hang as a testament to a freer spirit of invention than exists in the austere labs of Edwin Land's Science Center...
Time to procrastinate--you have all spring break, after all--and head down to Tremont Street. Written in the 30s by Cao Yu, "Dean of the Chinese playwrights," The Wild Land (adapted into English by Doris Chu) tells the tale of a young woman who strains to escape the pressures of her family in turn of the century China. An escaped convict offers her a chance to reach a place of ceaseless joy. March 18-28. Tremont Theater. 219 Tremont...