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...network-linked digital sensors are starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where they...
...advised the President not to sign treaties like Kyoto that do not demand emissions limits on developing countries (like China) and that would result in harm to the U.S. economy. Both points are flawed. While it is important that developing countries are, in the future, subject to the same rigid emissions caps currently imposed upon developed nations, developed countries—the countries that historically have “caused” global warming—cannot afford to postpone action. If the U.S., a rich country with advanced green technology, does not make a commitment to reduce emissions...
...Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel and Egypt, I'm famous in Ethiopia for being the No. 1 latrine builder...
...everybody would stare at us on the line. We'd go to the grocery store and everybody would stare at you. I dressed like the fundamentalists do in the community right now, with the exception that their dress code is a lot more rigid than when I was there. You had to wear a dress or skirt that was mid-calf, six inches below the knee at least. And you had to wear long sleeves and something with a high neck. You just had to have everything covered...
...Faust explained in that speech, the founding of Radcliffe College in 1894 represented “a compromise between what women wanted and what Harvard would give them.” Even when classrooms were integrated, Harvard imposed a rigid quota on Radcliffe admissions...