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...have the principles begun to accomplish these goals of planning for the long-run? First, the planners of the Northwest Lab building next to the Museum of Natural History have immediately committed to be certified by the United States Green Building Council. This could mean redesigning the windows to reduce energy usage, using renewable resources in construction, and incorporating native plants into the landscaping. Second, Harvard has hired sustainability consultants to work with the Allston master planners to ensure that the principles are incorporated. Third, an administrative committee has begun meeting to determine how to institutionalize the principles in their...
...NEED VIGILANCE? Our applications from China to our graduate schools are down by more than a third, and that obviously has to affect the quality of the students we can bring to this country. That in turn affects American technology and entrepreneurship ... We are compromising our long-run security by reducing this kind of connection with foreign students...
...administration has also underestimated (or “misunderestimated”) the long-run security risk posed by the AIDS crisis. The $15 billion AIDS initiative is a step in the right direction, but its implementation was delayed for a year through bureaucratic bungling, and now the administration is wasting funds on overpriced vaccines from U.S. companies when cheaper generic substitutes are available for a fraction of the price. The United Nations AIDS program, UNAIDS, predicts that by 2010, the AIDS epidemic will have left 20 million African children orphaned. If rebel groups or terrorist organizations manage to recruit even...
Despite the difficulty foreseeable in implementing the HCCR’s recommendations, a holistic analysis of the way science is taught at Harvard could put the University at the forefront of scientific teaching, and, in the long-run, at the forefront of scientific research as well...
...that lost money rose 132%, while those of companies that posted a profit rose just 43%. Rising rates have a way of dampening speculation and should bring safety (and sanity) back into focus. So stick with blue chips that pay a dividend. The Dodge & Cox Stock Fund is a long-run winner. And let the Fed worry about politics...