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"I really do think that it's important for people to begin to think of the world as other than for their own comfort and convenience--as a sort of resource for people to mine forever."
McKibben, a former president of The Crimson, worked after graduation for The New Yorker, where he wrote the "Talk of the Town" column. At times, The End of Nature reads like an extended New Yorker column, as it dashes from current scientific theory to the literary rhapsodies of Henry D...
And I may be hopelessly mired in anthropocentrism, but I find McKibben's argument a bit elitist. The people who would suffer most by a general cutback in technology are those who don't have a house in the mountains. Citizens of underdeveloped countries and America's own poor depend...
Each 'Tub' Has Its Place: Harvard may have an endowment of more than $4.5 billion. It may be the largest academic fundraiser in the country this year. But some of the University's nine faculties couldn't care less. The reason? "Every tub on its own bottom"--the Harvard tradition...
Harvard women's soccer Coach Tim Wheaton can't control his own destiny, so he is putting his faith in Providence.