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...course there's Leonardo DiCaprio, who proves conclusively that, contrary to what many conservatives think, earth-friendly habits needn't preclude you from a rich lifestyle of award-winning film performances and rampant supermodel-dating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greenest Celebrity in Hollywood | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...dishes should include information like the ingredients and nutritional breakdown. A qualitative approach is more conducive to a healthful navigation through dining choices than a quantitative one. The removal of the cards at the request of students and their parents marks a responsible move from HUDS. Eating concerns are rampant at Harvard among all sexes, and too often it is an issue that goes ignored. The removal of the cards indicates that higher-up figures at Harvard are responsive to students’ mental health concerns. Now, the eating experience at Harvard can be further improved by adopting a holistic...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Count Us Out | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...planet's land surface, but are home to about half the world's plant species and a third of vertebrate animals. Because the vast majority of Madagascar's 2,300 species are found nowhere else on Earth, if a species is lost on Madagascar, it is lost forever. Yet rampant deforestation, a swelling human population and the early effects of climate change have already pushed countless species out of existence. Of the surviving 71 lemur species and subspecies on Madagascar, 63% are endangered. "Madagascar is the hottest of hotspots," says Russell Mittermeier, the president of Conservation International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Wildlife of Madagascar | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...successes, though, some of Brazil's oldest maladies have proved stubbornly resistant to Lula's ministrations. Official corruption remains rampant; Lula blames a fetid political culture "that has been there for centuries," but that's an old excuse. One of his election promises was to clean up Brazilian politics, and with two years to go--rules forbid him to seek a third consecutive term--he'll have to start wielding the broom vigorously. The education system, despite increased funding and access, is still an embarrassment: Brazilian students continue to score at the bottom on international math and reading tests. Taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula's Way | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...character assassination that, as Hillary Clinton reminded America this year, is a signature of Clintonian politics. But the problem is, that’s all it is: character assassination. Despite its best efforts, it doesn’t emphasize the horrors of the past eight years, from torture to rampant war to widespread mismanagement and the gutting of civil liberties. Instead, it caricatures the people who put those policies in place and neglects the arguments—some of them convincing—that made those policies possible.This is the reality Clintonian politics never understood: many on the other side...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Huffington Just Doesn't Get It Right | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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