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...malnourished people has dropped by 200 million in the last three decades. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that between 1970 and 1995 the proportion of undernourished people declined by half, falling drastically from 37 to 18 percent of all human beings. For over a century, the real-world price of food has been in consistent decline even as quality has improved. Further, food production has increased faster than population growth...
...valid and important to the University’s mission as any other academic subject. The practice and performance of the arts provide creative outlets for reflecting, critiquing and interpreting the world. Just as existing concentrations tailor their curricula to the subjects’ history, trends and real-world applications, arts concentrations focus on history, theory and performance. The University should not, nor would it ever, create an arts conservatory within Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but academic endeavors which aim to create art—not just interpret it—deserve far more support...
...join the Air Force to fly over Iraq. As anybody who has watched CNN's Baghdad bomb-damage reports knows, it's now easy to pull up satellite images of a major military target and dive into a 3-D landscape rich in hills and valleys, all built from real-world data. Zoom in close enough, and you can see cars on the streets, the shadows of trees and the swimming pools of Saddam's palaces...
...done any channel surfing over the past two decades, you've probably encountered Hendricks' pioneering brand of reality TV (he prefers the term real-world TV). Once an odd little documentary network making an occasional wave with shows like Shark Week, Hendricks' flagship Discovery Channel reaches 231 million homes in 155 countries and has become one of the most respected, popular cable channels around--and a powerful media brand whose global reach is matched only by the likes of MTV and CNN. It is also the foundation of a privately owned cable empire that generates $2 billion a year...
...signed into law the Sudan Peace Act, allotting millions of dollars to the Sudan in order to support reconciliation between the peoples of the North and South. This law is a great step forward in the fight against Sudanese slavery, but in order for the law to translate into real-world actions, we should urge our elected officials to support the immediate and effective implementation of this...