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...long . . . He was exposed to two articles by people - I'm ashamed to say they were Americans - who said HIV doesn't cause AIDS , and the medicine could kill you. He also had a legitimate substantive issue: South Africa had given out anti-TB medicine without a proper protocol and they wound up spawning some more virulent, drug-resistant strains. But we just kept on working...
...Earth grasping onto the Kyoto Accords, the expanding mouth of the globe representing the ozone hole. Let’s get the facts straight here. The ozone hole is created by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs); CFCs have been successfully phased out of many developed countries due to the Montreal Protocol signed by many nations in 1987. The primary ozone hole still exists in the Antarctic because CFCs have a very long residence time in the atmosphere...
...other hand, the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 comes from the work of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which specifically deals with “greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol,” including Carbon Dioxide. If the cartoonist wanted to make a real political statement, she should have drawn a globe that was sweating while clinching onto the Kyoto Accords (but, of course, many other cartoonists have done this in other newspapers...
Ultimately, the ozone hole has nothing to do with the Kyoto Protocol; cartoonists, as well as editorialists, should research the issue they express before they put it down...
Throughout last school year, Harvard’s administrators responded to student protests, lawsuits and Faculty outrage against the school’s protocol for dealing with sexual assault allegations. Within one year of the 200-person Coalition Against Sexual Violence rally on University Hall, a student-faculty investigative panel was recommending sweeping reforms of Harvard’s education and outreach programs. Although Harvard’s effort to deal with sexual assault still needs further support, its efforts seem magnanimous compared to the ignoble and deplorable attempt to cover up and discount sexual assault allegations...