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Another simple but vitally important move would be to reinvigorate the U.S. commitment to family planning at home and abroad. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, points out that humanity consumes or wastes 40% of the total amount of energy stored by photosynthesis in terrestrial vegetation. No one knows how much more people can devour before they begin to exhaust resources and crowd out vital ecosystems. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute argues that global annual food production already falls short of human consumption and that environmental degradation reduces yields 1% annually at a time when world population...
...Alexandria participants were: Lester Brown, Worldwatch Institute; John Chafee, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island; Michael Deland, Council on Environmental Quality; Kathryn Fuller, World Wildlife Fund; Albert Gore, U.S. Senate, Tennessee; Denis Hayes, Earth Day 1990; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Michael McElroy, Harvard University; Kenneth Piddington, World Bank Environment Department; Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine; James Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute; Mostafa Tolba, United Nations Environment Program; and Alexei Yablokov, Congress of People's Deputies, U.S.S.R...
...This is not another [John Peter] Zenger case," Murphy said, referring to the famous case that helped define a free press. "It's a case where two students had a responsibility and the advisor didn't feel they carried it out. It's not more grandiose than that. They were not disciplined beyond that. That would be overkill," Murphy said...
Harvard Coach Peter Roby has always promised an entertaining brand of play and, despite an 11-15 season, the Crimson was more than entertaining for Briggs Cage junkies last year...
HARVARD (66): Ron Mitchell 3-6--12; Tyler Rullman 4-4--12; Fred Schernecker 2-0--6; Scott Gilly 2-1--7; Dana Smith 0-4--4; Brian Mackey 0-0--0; Tarik Campbell 2-0--4; Peter Condakes 1-1--3; Steve Bowsher 1-0--2; Matt McClain 0-1--1; Eric Carter 3-2--8; Mike Minor 1-1--3; Ian Smith 0-0--0; Mal Hollensteiner...