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...considering departmental budget cuts of 10 to 15 percent, faculty members—often critics of the fund—brought up the idea of reassessing this costly financing of Allston. Chairman of the Harvard Allston Task Force Ray Mellone said that he is prepared for changes in the speed of the University’s plans, as well as changes to the implementation of community benefits. “If Harvard can’t have their expansion at the same rate we were thinking about two or three months ago, then of course the amount of benefits...
...survive. In the developed world, most victims are passengers in vehicles; in the developing world, they're pedestrians or bicyclists. The WHO recommends seven commonsense measures to reduce the toll, including stronger minimum-drinking-age laws; establishing and enforcing seat-belt, child-restraint and helmet laws; and reducing speed limits around schools, residential neighborhoods and play areas...
...reductions will require technological advances on energy that have yet to be developed, and the U.N. can't force that process. But it can work to focus the world's attention on climate change and help map out the policy framework - including on issues like tropical deforestation - that will speed the broader social, economic and technological changes that will eventually make a real difference...
...Admittedly, such vigorous activity comes with its negative side. Arrests become spectacles on national television, narrated by reporters on police captains’ speed dials. A general fear of wiretapping, legal and illegal, takes over the political and business classes. Nevertheless, corruption is being attacked day in and day out. The skeptical observer should still praise Lula for letting the PF do its job. After all, investigations have all too often gotten dangerously close to people around the president himself...
...Kaplan, Russell P. Kelley, Christopher B. Lacaria, Nadira Lalji, Alice N. Lee, John D. Lesieutre, Tracy Li, Eric I. Lu, Maxwell S. Mishkin, Charles G. Nathanson, Garrett G.D. Nelson, Won H. Park, Julia L. Renaud, Charles H. Rhodes, Keller C. Rinaudo, Jacob N. Sanders, Adam R. Singerman, Brenton N. Speed, Dana A. Stern, Vivek Viswanathan, Brian M. Weller, Diana C. Wise, Xiaodi Wu, Wenxin Xu, David C. Yang, Norman Y. Yao, and Fan Zhang...