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...Nelson said the committees, which plan small and large-scale events that often involve alcohol, would continue to receive funding because they were taking proper measures to prevent underage drinking...
...worst crime of all: it has rejected truth in claiming to protect it.” If that isn’t the kind of well-reasoned rhetoric that we ought to demand from our administrators, then I don’t know what is.University administrators, by their nature, prevent us—citizen-scholars that we are—from acting on our god-given right to rule this College. After decades of our parents’ telling us that we are, indeed, god’s gift to the world, a pack of dithering deans has the audacity...
...future. Education, research, teaching are always about change – transforming individuals as they learn, transforming the world as our inquiries alter our understanding of it, transforming societies as we see our knowledge translated into policies—policies like those being developed at Harvard to prevent unfair lending practices, or to increase affordable housing or avert nuclear proliferation—or translated into therapies, like those our researchers have designed to treat macular degeneration or to combat anthrax. The expansion of knowledge means change. But change is often uncomfortable, for it always encompasses loss as well as gain...
...such as health care for poorer workers plays well with the masses, but may undermine efforts to contain inflation. "As low-income earners enjoy higher incomes they tend to spend money," says Simpfendorfer, the Royal Bank of Scotland economist. "Ultimately that's an inflationary story." Political considerations can also prevent officials from taking aggressive, timely action, says Albert Keidel, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former Beijing-based senior economist for the World Bank. "It's better to nip inflation in the bud," Keidel says, "but [politicians'] concern is that if they take...
...monitor nearly 600,000 miles of high-pressure steel pipelines--every square inch susceptible to corrosion-induced failures, the kind that can lead to leaks or explosions. And very ugly ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER headlines. Not everyone's complaining, though. The industry's nightmare has been a boon to companies that prevent and repair pipeline rust, typically through a process called cathodic protection...