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...hunts, synchronized swimming and especially recycling--just shouldn't be made into competitions. No matter how well-intentioned its leaders, Green Cup wrongly assumes that the most ambitious students around will compete for damn near anything--even the honor of being the best waste-reducers in school. Even Captain Planet would have a tough time getting excited for such a competition. So, while I was dismayed at our loss, I can only hope that the Green Cup organizers will provide Eliot House with a better motivation than pure unbridled ambition next year. Because, if nothing else, Green Cup has proven...
...return to Planet Earth, what if the liquor dealers of America were to create a challenge program for the best driver's education program in the country? It would be in line with their campaign against mixing drinking and driving and in favor of using a designated driver. The only trouble with the idea of a designated driver, who is sober, is that it distracts one's attention from the passengers, who may be headed back to wife and family stewed to the gills and ready to come out swinging. If the liquor businesses were interested in full disclosure, their...
...than they were a hundred years ago. In many cases, in fact, history seems to be moving backward (in modern Zimbabwe, to take but one example, the average life expectancy has dwindled from 70 to 38 in recent years because of AIDS). To travel today is to see a planet that looks more and more like a too typical downtown on a global scale: a small huddle of shiny high-rises reaching toward a multinational heaven, surrounded on every side by a wasteland of the poor, living in a state of almost biblical desperation...
...beneath the surface, inevitably, traditional differences remain. George Bernard Shaw declared generations ago that England and America were two countries divided by a common language. Now the world often resembles 200 countries divided by a common frame of cultural reference. The number of countries on the planet, in the 20th century, has more than tripled...
...FRANKENFOOD MONITORS Not sure what's for dinner? With a little genetic tinkering, fast-growing fish and freeze-resistant fruits will help feed an overpopulated planet, but such hybrids could unwittingly wipe out the food chain. Eco-scouts will be on the lookout for so-called Trojan gene effects, and bounty hunters will help the USDA eliminate transgenic species that get out of hand...