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...Searching for a word to sum up the changes to superannuation, he thought for a few beats, then settled on "radical." It was Costello looking down the time tunnel; the exact image of the landscape and people out there in 2040 was elusive, but he seemed happy with the shape of the outcome. The moment passed and the Treasurer went back to the script. But radical was a description Costello was burdened with-or guided by-for two decades. His choice of the word was also a reminder of how Australia has changed under Howard-and how the notion...
...treated wastewater showed that science alone isn't enough to reassure people in a debate that's just getting started, says the csiro's Blair Nancarrow: "Scientists aren't just trusted automatically anymore. You have to have a partnership with the community." Next month's poll in Toowoomba will shape the future of that debate. But a yes vote will only make it the first Australian community to officially welcome recycled water into its kitchens. Richmond, on Sydney's outskirts, takes water from the Hawkesbury River, into which treated effluent is discharged, as does Adelaide, from the Murray. Says csiro...
...apply for the remaining positions. More than 160 applied. We appointed about 40 students as full members of the SAB. The Board also includes guest members representing faculty, administrators, proctors, the FDO, the Bureau of Study Counsel, and the APO. The Board worked closely with the APO to shape the peer advising program, recruit and train peer advisers, create various materials for the Class of 2010, revise Board of Freshman Adviser training, and will continue to work with the office on all other initiatives and projects. The Committee on Advising and Counseling also advises the APO. (The membership...
...urges are limited. There are Final Clubs for the few who are suitably adept at drinking wine and eating cheese. There is a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine for the few who can fit in the cookie-cutter shape of the publication’s officer core. But for the majority of Harvardians without access to these institutions, a new forum has provided an unexpected space to unleash their suppressed desires: Lamont Library. With the advent of the library’s 24-hour schedule, Lamont has become?...
...always felt that the Core curriculum was too rigid.”Historian Caroline Elkins, another new addition to the council, won a Pulitzer Prize this year for her book on British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya—a work that began to take shape while she was a graduate student at Harvard.Elkins, who is Foster associate professor of African studies, says she wanted to join the council because of the quality of its current members.“The faculty council is comprised of a diverse group of members of the Harvard community who come with certain sets...