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...what happens to prices in Yuma will be felt in Zambia, because corn is a worldwide commodity. In some ways, it's a very nasty food-or-fuel struggle. "The line that used to separate food grain from the grain being used for energy is being erased," says Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington. "The stage is now set for direct competition for grain between the 800 million people who own automobiles and the world's 2 billion poorest people...
Today is “4/20,” a day celebrated by marijuana smokers across the country—and here at Harvard, Lester Grinspoon is continuing his crusade for the legalization of cannabis in the U.S.Grinspoon, an associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has advocated for legalization ever since the early 1970s when, he said, the drug helped his son overcome the painful side effects of chemotherapy.Inspired by his son’s struggle, Grinspoon wrote several controversial books including “Marijuana Reconsidered,” in which he presented a case...
...downtown pride themselves on commuting to work by foot, bike and mass transit, that doesn't mean they want every travel convenience - as a new airline taking off from the heart of the city has discovered. Until recently, the only airport serving Canada's largest metropolis had been Lester B. Pearson International Airport, located 20 miles from the city centre. The airport is not accessible by subway, so downtowners have to slog through traffic snarls to get there. That looked like an opportunity to aviation entrepreneur Robert Deluce, who, last October, launched Porter Airlines. Porter offered 10 round-trip flights...
...unison. President Summers even issued a special fiat expressly forbidding termbill fees. We found ourselves shrugged off into meetings with assistants, all the fall’s energy blowing away like dust in the proverbial wind. As a freshman, I was in way over my head. Fresh off Lester Brown’s “Eco-Economy,” a Bible for anti-capitalist environmentalists everywhere, I was full of big ideas and bluster, little of which I really understood. Learning how to navigate Harvard’s administrative labyrinth could be a full-time...
...Lester R. Brown...