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...didn't go chasing after his dreams. He went chasing after booze. And drugs. And food. By 2000, he weighed nearly 340 pounds and owed thousands of dollars in taxes, student loans and credit-card debt. Cue the "Urban Hermit Plan" - a wildly dangerous scheme to subsist on little else but lentils and canned tuna. MacDonald's memoir recounts the unexpected journey he took, morphing from "Fat Bastard" to "Urban Hermit," taking his readers from Baltimore to Bosnia and back again in a tale of "starvation, hard work and blind luck...
...technologies in place, critics say incinerator smokestacks still release too many pollutants. Moreover, because only very large operations are economical, incinerators are ever-hungry for massive amounts of waste, which can discourage recycling. The Isle of Wight impressively recycles 50% of its household waste, so the gasification plant will subsist on the other half, the so-called residual waste. One of gasification's selling points is that the plants can be scaled up or down, according to need, and still be efficient...
...rents in the business district are the highest in Africa, ranging from $54 to $108 per sq. ft. ($600 to $1,200 per sq m). Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people live in Luanda's slums, malaria and cholera are rife, and 70% of the population of 16 million subsist below the poverty line. Surveying the forest of cranes on Luanda's skyline, a foreign businessman describes the operating environment as opaque, corrupt and hamstrung by bureaucracy. "It's a nightmare," he says...
...highest number of television sets per person in the world, yet by that standard of wealth, Harvard is hopelessly poor. Harvard undergraduates must subsist on what they can get over the airwaves or herd into common rooms to watch their favorite shows—or fight with others who are watching something else. But thanks to the entrepreneurial wit and creative zeal of a few students, modernity is politely knocking on our doors. Technological and legal issues have been resolved by this small group of dedicated students and satellite television could soon be accessible in upperclassmen houses through electrical wires...
...modes of inquiry” bequeathed to us by the Core, as well as the now-rendered-meaningless avant-garde “global” citizen General Education proposal. Instead, the Faculty should institute a few broad categories in which all general education requirements can subsist. Notably, some faculty members rejected such a system when the original committees charged with conducting a review of Harvard’s general education system proposed it over a year ago. Objections raised ranged from it being too vague to it not being able to “put Harvard on the front...