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Second, poverty is central to the problem. Four billion of the planet's 6 billion people face deprivation inconceivable to the wealthiest 1 billion. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that the bottom two-thirds of humanity will strive to improve their lot. As they demand adequate heat and food, not to mention cars and CD players, humanity's environmental footprint will grow. Our challenge is to accommodate this mass ascent from poverty without wrecking the natural systems that make life possible...
...unique role in this kind of lifelong learning strive is to provide access to ongoing events and lectures... capture this richness that's happening all the time... get it in some kind of digital format," he says...
...Hasty Pudding, like all buildings, is made up of more than just walls and a roof: It has a distinct character, something overlooked in all the jubilation at its takeover by the University (Editorial, April 12). As we use the new space we should strive to keep the building as colorful as ever; maintaining its present faded glory would be infinitely preferable to giving it the shiny new feel of other recent renovations...
Because of this, FAS guidelines strive to prevent an imbalance between the time and energy a Faculty member devotes to Harvard and to other activities, rather than focusing on specific interactions with corporations...
...this collection of essays, short stories and poems in which male writers imagine life as a woman for 24 hours. With rare exceptions, the 38 contributors belabor the fantasy of dressing up and sleeping around, while expressing a smug self-loathing for the callousness of their gender. A few strive for empathy and thoughtfulness (Alexander Theroux and Brian Bouldrey stand out), but for the rest of these men, being a woman too often means feeling angry, oppressed or prone to tears...