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Amidst all the festivities surrounding Commencement, there is a distinct temptation to let bygones be bygones, to raise a glass with my peers, and to toast Fair Harvard. I will resist that temptation. I will not celebrate a place that not only disregards, but actively demolishes, the qualities of decency and humility in the people that it educates. I will raise a glass to my small group of friends, who far better than I, have managed to navigate these past four years with their sense of philanthropy and optimism intact. Whatever good, they, or I, accomplish in the world, will...
...next 10 years. Not surprisingly, the oil industry is less than thrilled with the directive, claiming the new regulations could create a fuel crunch by curtailing production and rendering diesel fuel prohibitively expensive - an increase of at least 10 cents per gallon, by most estimates. "Oil companies generally resist regulation by predicting disastrous short-term effects," says TIME international editor Charles Alexander. "And there could well be short-term shortages to deal with, but the market will adjust; it always has before. The EPA is taking the long view on pollution, which is exactly what they should be doing." Unfortunately...
...caused partly by its timing, striking as it did on a busy weekday morning, but also by its seductiveness. It was a minor masterpiece of what hackers like to call "social engineering"--in other words, manipulating the rubes. Few of the lonely hearts among cubicle dwellers could resist its siren song. (This reporter couldn't--and paid the price in lost files...
...world and haul out some terrified teenagers--or former teenagers--in front of a horde of reporters, you can bet we won't be seeing any modern-day John Dillingers. More likely we'll see some gifted, alienated kids--powerless in their real adolescent lives--who couldn't resist the temptation to use technology to make themselves, even briefly, more powerful than they had ever imagined...
...well, it seems the right thing to do. Most will stretch their resources to the breaking point in order to have a second child not because that's what their genes drive them to do but because they love having children. Critics of the work of Hrdy and others resist drawing too many parallels between human and animal parents, insisting that the few traits that distinguish us from other species are far more important than the many things we share...