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...helping to counteract the environmental problem, but it will never be enough because the fundamental problem is overpopulation. Unless people realize this and do something, I don't think we will ever stop global warming. So I say bravo to all the heroes, but if we do not stem population growth their efforts will be in vain. I know the subject is a sensitive one for many reasons, but if not checked it can only lead to a lot of suffering for many people now and in the future. Johan van Venrooy, PHILIPPOLIS, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes of the Planet | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...factory town that may soon have no factories. Many people here will have to go to Austria or the U.K. for work." But despite the mounting anxiety, few blame the global forces that have exacerbated Zalabaromfi's predicament. As the IMF offers Hungary financial and technical assistance to stem the flow of millions of dollars in foreign investment out of the country, and to help steady the nation's sinking currency, Hungarians are pointing fingers at people much closer to home. Work-council president Kiss Tóthné is frank in her appraisal. "On second thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards from Europe's Financial Bust | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have inched closer to fulfilling the promise of stem cell research for treating human disease by partially overcoming a key obstacle to their...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Safer Stem Cells on Horizon, Harvard Researchers Say | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Director of India’s Deendayal Research Institute Nandita Pathak told a crowd in Lowell Library yesterday that integral humanism—which emphasizes the holistic development of communities—was integral to the development of Indian villages. According to Pathak, the problems of development stem from plans that lack great involvement from the people they are designed to help. Pathak said that development should instead flow from the bottom up. This type of grass-roots development can be achieved with integral humanism, she added. To stress the importance of the project to India’s well...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Director: Values Key in India | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...world's economists have been nearly unanimous in saying that only a coordinated, worldwide effort can stem the current credit crunch and companion market meltdown. Their proposed solutions include: cut interest rates, recapitalize the banks and insure deposits; get governments to step in and guarantee short-term interbank lending. "The first good thing about this situation is that it does not call for different central banks and Treasuries to do different things, but rather for them all to do the same thing in unison without fouling each other's oars. That should be relatively easy to arrange," wrote University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the G-7 Save the World from Financial Chaos? | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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