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...Harvard has taken numerous bold steps to create a more environmentally friendly campus, and the recent move to convert all of its grounds to organic grass is another impressive initiative. What started as a one-acre pilot project is now slated to be a full organic overhaul, an encouraging sign that the university is willing to seize worthy ideas that help the environment and save money...
...flimsy but in-your-face blue sign near the entrance displays one of Khomeini's best-known declarations: "We will stand until our last breath, last house, last drop of our blood to elevate the word of God." The shrine's interior, reminiscent of an airport hanger, reflects the Imam's austere outlook. During his rule, Khomeini received all manner of dignitaries in a bare room at his daughter's modest residence in the theological center of Qum, and refused to eat anything more extravagant than fruit, yogurt and rice. In contrast, his sarcophagus has now been enclosed within...
...muscle-flexing response, Tehran announced that its Revolutionary Guards had conducted new tests of medium- and short-range missiles - a sign that the threat of further sanctions didn't seem to have made much impact. For one thing, Iran has been dealing with such restrictions since the Islamic revolution in 1979. For another, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is probably in on the open secret about economic sanctions: they don't really work. Attempts to economically isolate troublemaking nations are the leech treatments of international diplomacy: traditional cure-alls that, though well-intentioned, rarely force regime change or prompt significant policy...
...Josh are really starting to play well together,” Omodele-Lucien said. “He’s starting to learn the ropes fast, and that’s always a good sign. The most important thing about these fall tournaments is building confidence as a team, and we’ll do that by working on the correct things and making sure in these tournaments we do what we do in practice. In general we need to worry about things that will kick in three months from now instead of worrying too much about the present...
...leader, and future deputy to Merkel in the new coalition, believes too little has been done to look after the interests of Germany's Mittelstand, its small- and medium-size businesses. He told TIME in a recent interview that some German stimulus measures had been ill-conceived. "You can sign 100 stimulus programs but if investing doesn't gain momentum, the economy won't get better," he said...