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...live in an America where it has become normal to consider it inherently suspect to be associated with Muslims and Arabs? Press reactions—including Harvard student publications that claim to be neutral as well as those that are “conservative”—to a recent gift supporting Islamic studies at Harvard suggest that this is indeed where we live. The headline of a recent article in the Crimson Magazine reads “No Strings Attached? A generous prince left Harvard a hefty sum. But might his ties to the Arab world affect...
...very liberal, or even completely off the political spectrum. If the federal government imposes a curriculum, which is essentially what standardized testing does, it will limit the way schools can teach and even what they are allowed to teach because they will have to pander to the arbitrary, supposedly neutral and politically correct standards of some national education advisory committee. It would be difficult for the government to dictate that private universities use standardized testing because this would clearly violate basic constitutional limitations on federal power; simply put, Congress does not have the right to impose arbitrary standards...
...growing. Conservation International, for instance, helped Mitsubishi and Pearl Jam funnel their offsetting funds into rain-forest protection in Madagascar. And Coldplay did more than enough to offset its last album, X&Y, by protecting forests in Mexico and Ecuador. Internet ventures with names like TerraPass, myclimate and Drive Neutral enable commuters and air travelers to calculate their emissions and neutralize the damage. Some even aim to turn a profit...
...willing to let it stand. In late 2004, HSBC committed itself to becoming carbon neutral-the first major bank to do so-by January 2006. The principle is simple: the bank spends its cash on green energy projects that reduce CO2 emissions by the same amount the bank creates. "We realized we had to go above that 'business as usual' scenario," says Francis Sullivan, HSBC's adviser on the environment, speaking from the corporation's towering London HQ. The bank was already spending $7 million annually to boost the energy efficiency of its buildings but, says Sullivan, "we cannot generate...
...wind farm that powers up to 45,000 homes in New Zealand and a project in Germany that reduces emissions of methane gas by converting pig and cattle manure into heat and electricity. An independent auditor will report this month on whether the bank can officially call itself carbon neutral...