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...quotes stand out in your section on responsibility pioneers. Amy Domini says, "The future of the planet is as important as an earnings report." I had hoped the planet ranked a bit higher. Trash-free Melissa Schweisguth says, "I live my life in a way that aligns with my values." So do the rest of us, Melissa. That's the problem. Tom Hoogterp, Engadine, Mich...
...erupted in China's Xinjiang province between the indigenous Uighurs and Han Chinese immigrants only days before. The subject quickly turned to Western press coverage of the upheaval, which tended to portray the Uighurs as a beleaguered minority deprived of opportunity. Why, the students asked, do Western media report stories so differently than the Chinese (state-controlled) media? What quickly became clear was their unstated attitude: What right do you Americans have imposing your paradigm...
...world. Connected’s co-author, James Fowler ’92, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, provided the first evidence of the positive “Colbert bump” in polls for politicians appearing on the Colbert Report...
Harvard received an A- on the annual College Sustainability Report Card for the fourth year running, outpacing its Ivy League peers on such measures of greenness as "administration," "investment priorities," and "shareholder engagement." The report, first published in 2007 by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, aims to identify universities that have embraced the sustainability ethos outside the classroom. Under its grading scheme, Harvard hasn't improved much, unlike some of the Ivies—but neither has it gotten worse at going green. We're looking at you, Columbia. (Falling from A- to B in a single year? Really...
...burst its banks - but this year's deluge came as a shock because if followed a protracted drought, and a monsoon season branded a dud by the authorities. To experts who've tracked the effects of climate change, however, the flooding came as no surprise. In its fourth assessment report in 2007, the Inter- Government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that more extreme droughts, floods, and storms, would become commonplace in the future, and that these intense weather conditions would follow in close succession to each other, often in the same areas...