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...footsteps of Attila the Hun and write a travel narrative afterwards. If we want to lie around just doing nothing, it is because Kierkegaard once spent his summer lying around doing nothing, and we’re preparing an 80-page thesis on it. Perhaps we should blame Richard Henry Dana. In 1840, this Harvard student’s Two Years Before the Mast transformed his nightmarish apprenticeship aboard a sailing vessel into an equally nightmarish—but bestselling—memoir. He was a trailblazer of the productive-unproductive summer. The consummate Harvardian, he glimpsed the potential...
...recent history? Here's a surprise: one of the world's most influential environmentalists isn't an environmentalist at all. Nor is he an activist, a conservationist, or even someone who seems to spend a lot of time in the wilderness. He's an economist. His name is Richard Sandor, and more than anyone else, he invented the idea of emissions trading - a financial technique of capping and trading pollutants - which may be our best hope for beating climate change...
...response was not clear enough to project a significant policy initiative, and we'll have to wait and see if the Pope feels the need to fit new actions to brave words. Noted Janice McKay, a parishioner with a 21-year-old son, after Sunday morning Mass at St. Richard Catholic Church in Miami: "Yes, I think he's helped American Catholics feel a little better about the church because he made the effort in a very forthright way. What I don't think I heard enough from him was, 'What are we going to do about...
...hospital wrote that, based on the success in mice, associate professor Richard M. Stone is launching phase I clinical trials in patients at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to determine whether humans can safely use the drug...
...story of an introverted dwarf and his cautious friendships was quiet, tender, and moving. These qualities are still present in “The Visitor,” but some of the subtleties are lost behind the movie’s commentary on illegal immigration. When Vale (Richard Jenkins, “Six Feet Under”) reluctantly travels to a conference in New York City, he enters the apartment he owns (but rarely visits) to find two strangers living there. Illegal immigrants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman, “24”) and his girlfriend Zainab (Danai Gurira) discover that...