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...beat," even as the media itself seems increasingly disposable. Until that changes - until reporters embrace their roles as honest referees and their bosses give them the space and resources to do their job - "the press will continue to underreport the story of the century: the race to save the planet from the meteor known as humankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Press Misreporting the Environment Story? | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...great success of the Green Revolution of the 1950s and '60s, which vastly increased global crop yields through intensive fertilizer use and irrigation. Bananas are one of the most important cash crops in the world, for example, yet Fowler notes that there are just six banana breeders on the planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Planet's Ultimate Backup Plan: Svalbard | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...year. Pollard, though, makes the activity of people like Ryan Adams and Dan Bejar look part-time. Having released his last solo album on January 20th, Pollard, the former leader of 90s legends Guided By Voices, is back just a month later with “The Planets are Blasted,” the second album by his band Boston Spaceships.Pollard’s habit of writing and releasing songs in such a rapid manner could easily lead one to expect the quality of his output to suffer, as the value of each song is cheapened by the sheer...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Spaceships | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...employees, and came under heavy fire for supposedly misjudging the needs of youth in the developing world from the get-go. Talking heads on all continents profess communities need fresh water and malaria nets before Skype and Wikipedia. After all, there are 2.5 billion people on the planet living on less than $2 per day. They need the bare necessities—and you can’t eat pixels...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: One Laptop, Much Controversy | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...currency?” Former scene director Nicholas J. Navarro ’10 did not expect nor intend to incite the negative responses that the scene provoked. Instead of a racially charged image of black male sexuality, he envisioned the segment to be a theatrical representation of the planet on a fashion runway. “It’s hard to prevent misinterpretations of what’s trying to be an empowering production because there are a lot of different ways in which people can interpret art,” Navarro says. “Eleganza...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Posing a Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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