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...Harvard College Environmental Action Committee has been calling for. We encourage Faust to set Harvard on track to being climate-neutral by 2036, as a plan to ensure that Harvard make up for its greenhouse gas emissions is a vital part of being sustainable. Such a move will hopefully prompt other schools to work towards the goal of climate neutrality as well. We commend the University for its impressive showing on the report. But as the Institute’s policy of not awarding “A” grades shows, there is always room for improvement...
...brain, requires stimulation to develop. Carol Baker, an infectious-disease specialist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says even a bout of the flu could prove serious as the Fritzls may never have encountered the virus that causes it. Baker says their health depends now on prompt vaccinations and careful monitoring. If treated properly, she adds, "biologically, they can be restored...
...seeming intractability of a crime like genocide may prompt naysayers to question the efficacy of activism. In this paper, other writers have suggested that American citizens can do nothing more than “hope and pray” to stem such abuses. Given the magnitude and scope of global human rights violations, it is not difficult to see how resignation can become a reflex...
Overkill? Fellow foreign correspondents in Beijing have received much worse, including death threats credible enough to prompt some of them to move offices. The explosion of rage was initially sparked by what many Chinese perceive as biased international coverage of the bloody riots in Tibet on March 14 and the continuing crackdown by Chinese security forces that followed. Then, as the Olympic-torch relay was greeted by pro-Tibet demonstrations in London, Paris and San Francisco, many Chinese felt their national honor had been besmirched. Recently, their ire has been focused specifically on France. Over the weekend of April...
...There are doubts, however. Many Iranians feel that the American political establishment would put the brakes on any rapprochement until Iran ended its hostility toward Israel. There's also concern in Iran that Obama's inexperience in foreign affairs may prompt him as President to actually take a harder line on Iran rather than risk appearing to be a weak leader...