Word: neutrality
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Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director of the Gallup Organization's Center for Muslim Studies, says she was encouraged by the many Forum experts' view of religion as a neutral tool, rather than a force inherently good or evil. "People here understand that blaming religion for conflict is like blaming the gun for shooting someone," she says. Mogahed also hailed the initiatives launched by Noor and Sheikha Moza. But she couldn't help wondering about something that might undermine the Alliance's high-minded efforts. "I haven't seen a single American policy-maker here," she says. "Their lack of engagement, their...
...colleagues showed that switchgrass yielded 540% more energy as a biofuel than the amount of energy used to grow, harvest and process it. (Corn ethanol yields just 25% more energy.) Greenhouse gas emissions from switchgrass fuel would be 94% lower than emissions from petroleum fuel - almost carbon neutral. Previous studies had come up with similar numbers in small-scale trials, but this was the first study on the level of a working farm. "The idea is that we won't be replacing food with fuel on prime land," says Vogel. "This study shows you can use switchgrass as an energy...
...With the score tied at one and a Crimson power play expiring, a simple case of bad luck caught the Harvard defense out of position. As the Tigers cleared the puck from their own zone, Princeton’s Kevin Keiser exited the penalty box in the neutral zone just as the puck deflected in his direction. Finding himself on a breakaway with 2:36 remaining, Keiser buried a wrist shot from the hash mark past Harvard sophomore netminder Kyle Richter for the go-ahead goal. “He was pretty much all alone,” junior forward...
...coach Ted Donato ’91. “I thought our penalty kill was exceptional and gave us a chance to get a point tonight.” Even though Quinnipiac managed to exert some pressure in the offensive zone, Harvard kept up its forecheck in the neutral zone and forced the Bobcats into the corners and behind the net when they could penetrate the Crimson’s zone. Against Princeton (8-8-0, 6-4-0), Richter played a more pivotal role in preventing Harvard’s four penalties from turning into power-play goals...
They are the beneficiaries of a curious irony. The Japanese would have been pleased if there had been no neutral eyewitnesses to this atrocity. They would have been even more pleased if no camera had been present. But the foreigners were educated and articulate people. They kept diaries, they wrote letters, they were determined to set down, on a daily basis, what they saw and experienced. Moreover, there were photographers, amateur and professional, of all nationalities using still and movie equipment to make a visual record of life in the tortured city. I have rarely, if ever, seen a documentary...