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...plan—notably, the deal between Harvard and Massachusetts to put a pre-emptive cap on carbon dioxide emissions from the new campus—have focused more on macro environmental policies. The newest revisions focus less on these innovations, which rely heavily on out-of-sight technology, and more on creating a natural aesthetic that interweaves natural elements more tightly with the future campus. In order to accomplish this aim, the plan focuses on improving interconnectivity throughout Allston while increasing open space, hiding unsightly infrastructure, and even leaving room for an urban farm.The future campus?...
...Stages in New York City. His new production is the result of a collaboration with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s 2008 Visiting Directors Project. The play is at once an overwhelming spectacle of words that simultaneously aims to confuse, humor, and enlighten, without an end in sight. Initially, this constant bombardment is unsettling, for it prevents the audience from ever feeling comfortable with what is occurring on stage and from merely following what is being said. But surprisingly, the production as a whole doesn’t suffer from being somewhat incomprehensible. The show, which runs Thursday...
...Experiment, yes, but don't lose sight of core values - and maintain a commitment to openness and market-friendly policies. To shore up a plunging stock market, Hong Kong's government intervened by buying up blue-chip stocks. A decade later, a government that once prided itself as a bastion of the free market still runs a big portfolio of leftover shares and has occasionally meddled in the economy in ways that have confused businesses and the community at large. And while Malaysia's market interventions helped the country through the crisis, the country never recovered the openness and tolerance...
...Cigarette warning labels not only do not deter smoking but actually encourage smokers to light up. The reason? The nucleus accumbens, or the "craving spot" in the brain, is stimulated by the sight of the warning...
...words, though, and he uses them so liberally that the effect is more exhausting than evocative. Passages like the following, from a British merchant fluent in the hodge-podge speech of Far Eastern port towns, confuse and distract rather than educate: “Now there was another chuckmuck sight for you! Rows of cursies for the sahibs and mems to sit on. Sittringies and tuckiers for the natives. The baboos puffing at their hubble-bubbles and the sahibs lighting their Sumatra buncuses. Cunchunees whirling and ticky-taw boys beating their tobblers...” And so it goes...