Word: rifkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really pissed off," said Scott A. Rifkin '97, a Leverett resident who needs a Literature and Arts B course to graduate in June. Rifkin was astounded to find he was rejected from the course, which has an enrollment cap of 72 because of the need to keep studio sections small. "I've been trying to figure this out for the past couple of days. I haven't quite figured it out. It's a problem, because study cards are due tomorrow...
...Rifkin said it's often very difficult for seniors to juxtapose their Core requirements into busy, thesis-laden schedules. Instead of B-17, he hopes to take Literature and Arts B-33: "Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Architecture" in the spring--if he gets in, that...
...hear its critics talk, W.R. Grace & Co., based in Boca Raton, Florida, is nothing less than a den of international pirates. Its crime: patenting a pesticide made from seeds of the Indian neem tree. "Genetic colonialism," thunders the self-proclaimed scientific watchdog Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, who is leading a coalition of 200 scientific, academic and farm organizations from 37 countries that filed a petition last week to have the patent revoked. Not only is Grace's pesticide based on an ancient and widely known extraction process, the coalition claims, but it will force Indian...
...case with most of Rifkin's campaigns, there is a real issue hidden underneath the overheated rhetoric: Who should profit from a country's indigenous genetic resources? A parallel question was solved for material resources years ago. Countries with oil or minerals simply kicked out foreign exploiters or forced them into fair profit-sharing agreements...
...Lampoon's "extra" went beyond poor taste. They should realize what the rest of the nation already knows: there is nothing funny about the Oklahoma City bombing. Scott Rifkin...