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...architecture, its brick and ivy. The airy glass structures of Behnisch are beautiful to be sure, but they do not highlight Harvard’s heritage or evoke its glory. Instead they evoke the new science complexes of Anycollege, U.S.A., something which Harvard is not. No one would reasonably suggest that the Allston campus be all Smith Halls and Old Quincy—that wouldn’t make much of a statement either. But it should put a fresh spin on Harvard’s old charm, make a bold new statement while affirming Harvard’s identity...
...suggest that we take back the word Christian while giving the religious right a new adjective: Christianist. Christianity, in this view, is simply a faith. Christianism is an ideology, politics, an ism. The distinction between Christian and Christianist echoes the distinction we make between Muslim and Islamist. Muslims are those who follow Islam. Islamists are those who want to wield Islam as a political force and conflate state and mosque. Not all Islamists are violent. Only a tiny few are terrorists. And I should underline that the term Christianist is in no way designed to label people on the religious...
...birders may be in for a disappointment. Radar studies of annual migrations suggest that the number of birds winging along America's flyways may be down by nearly 50% over the past 30 years, and data from the U.S. Geological Survey's annual Breeding Bird Survey and the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count reflect a similar decline. Various reasons for the falloff have been proposed, but climate change caused by global warming is high on the list for many experts...
...four. The number of mobile phones has soared from 12 for every 100 Russians in 2002 to 88 today. Sales of new foreign cars jumped 60% last year. The poverty rate dropped from 41% to 20% from 1999 to 2002, according to the World Bank, and other studies suggest it is now even lower...
...boom hasn't yet caused Russians to shake their legendary pessimism. Andrei Milekhin, who runs the country's biggest polling organization, Romir Monitoring, says his polls suggest that most people don't feel better off even though they are consuming more. Everyone grumbles about inflation, currently at about 12%. Apartment prices are soaring faster than in Shanghai or New York City. But for all its uncertainties, the Putin era seems less erratic than the tumultuous years of the previous decade, spanning the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the Yeltsin-era crisis in 1998, which wiped out most...