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...development of the Manhattan streetscape, was that rare thing, a big seller about architectural theory. Even now he remains the very model of the oracular modern architect, given to panoramic pronouncements on modernity ("If space junk is the human debris that litters the universe, junk space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet"). His highest goal is to restore possibilities for human interaction of whatever kind. Congestion and sprawl he sees as advantages. The posthuman megalopolises of the 21st century--Tokyo, Atlanta, Shanghai--are just so many jumbo opportunities. On the other hand, he is sick to death...
There are no two people I admire more for their contribution to mankind's welfare. --By Warren E. Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
Here, Harvard’s Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) department toils away at some of the most important questions for mankind with help from its internationally esteemed collections. Meanwhile, Summers—who declined to comment for this column through a spokesperson—looks the other way, rehashing his hollow rhetoric about undergraduates knowing the difference between a gene and a chromosome and angling to position Harvard as a leader in the biomedical sciences. This neglect of the other “half” (well, a little more) of the sciences may soon take its toll...
Rossolimo appreciated the indictment of the Bush administration as “not doing things for the welfare of mankind...
...mates for being slackers and argues with his Father--the God who sent him on this sacred suicide mission. This Jesus is so human he almost forgets he's divine. The grotesque pain he endures in his last 12 hours nearly blinds him to his task of redeeming mankind by dying for it. His memories are not those of a distant godhead but of his youth in Nazareth. Gibson's Jesus is a deity who has fallen in love with his human side; only death can restore his divinity...