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...capable of making profound, circuitous statements with multiple clauses, numerous concessions, and several lists. Now, with the whole world at your fingertips, you must decide whether you should shoot it in a hoop, bowl it down a lane, hit it with a club, bounce it, squeeze it, or simply plant and nourish it. That is, you must decide how you will conduct yourself in the world as a Harvard alum.As a Harvard alum, there are several ways for you to get involved. You can take the “passive aggressive approach” by sitting and complaining about what...
...Anything is possible. But US officials believe Russia and China have been driven to a tipping point by Iran?s outrageous behavior. "The fundamental turning point was when Iran took the seals off the [enrichment] plant at the end of January," says a US official. "There was a sense in the room that we have to take concrete action to make it clear to the Iranians that there are two paths...
...Meanwhile, out in Northern California there's a city called Hercules which decided it hates Wal-Mart. Hercules wants to build a cozy tree-lined street of small shops where an old dynamite plant used to be. They don't mind chains, like Starbucks and The Gap. They just don't want a Wal-Mart, which they believe will crush the small stores like sugar ants. Hercules has found no legal means of forbidding Wal-Mart from building on the vacant lot it owns, so this week the city voted to use eminent domain and take the $15 million...
...health and a better environment led him to start the company. Now he can't keep pace with the trend. "Organic demand has gone absolutely bonkers," he says. To keep up, Groupe Danone recently approved $66 million over three years for Stonyfield to expand its New Hampshire plant, built...
...been adding treated wastewater to its reservoirs, the quality of its NEWater exceeding World Health Organization guidelines. Greg Leslie, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of N.S.W., worked on Singapore's scheme with engineering firm CH2M HILL, which is proposing to upgrade Toowoomba's sewage-treatment plant. Leslie thinks objections raised to such schemes in Australia verge on hysteria. "I can't fathom anyone in their right mind saying they wanted to drink sewage," he says. "But drinking highly treated water is a completely different kettle of fish." Given that desalination also uses reverse osmosis-a process...