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...such an initiative, which would make it easier for students to comparison-shop online and save money on their books. Although the Coop provides the conveniences of centralization and proximity, its virtual monopoly on ISBN numbers of books used in College courses is not one that Harvard administrators should protect. Currently, professors submit the ISBN numbers to the Coop, but those numbers are often unavailable to students in the course and cannot always be found through the HOLLIS catalog. Students should have the opportunity to obtain their books as inexpensively as possible. Textbooks typically cost a student hundreds of dollars...
Amen to that. But now Georgia's politicians are fighting to protect their culture of consumption and development by suspending the Endangered Species Act, so that they won't have to send any water downstream to preserve endangered mussels in Florida's Apalachicola River. It's not a very holy attitude. Those mussels are God's creatures too--and so are the oystermen and fishermen who depend on the Apalachicola. Anyway, stiffing them won't save Atlanta. That's going to require serious water management and long-term thinking. In other words, a miracle...
...likely to get a lot harder. Scientists believe that global warming will make cyclones in the region bigger and more frequent. That's bad news for Bangladesh, whose location and geography makes it not only particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change but also extremely hard to protect. Most of Bangladesh sits on the giant alluvial delta created by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, whose courses are constantly shifting, making it difficult to build up river banks to protect farmland. A World Bank project, backed by France, Japan and the U.S., would construct 8,000 km of dikes...
...another year, but there's going to be heavy bipartisan pressure to pass a new bill with new goodies. Politicians from disaster-prone states like the Dakotas and Montana won't want to give up the $5 billion "permanent disaster fund" they tucked into the Senate bill to protect marginal farms. And the corresponding House bill includes scads of new money for nutrition, conservation, fruit and vegetable farms, organic certification, and other programs desired by various interest groups. That's why even the National Wildlife Federation sent out a press release Thursday declaring: "Senate Needs to Move Farm Bill Forward...
...declare the national state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf null. We applaud HLS Dean Elena Kagan for acknowledging heroic efforts of resistance during the calamity in Pakistan. We look forward to joining her in welcoming Chief Justice Chaudhry, who has risked his own well-being to protect the rule of democracy and law in Pakistan, to Cambridge in the near future. In recent months, President Musharraf and his gang have repeatedly taken steps to undermine the democratic process in the country. Musharraf’s supposed aims to bring stability to the country are only in name...