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...Dudamel. As a child growing up in the Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto, he was given a set of toy soldiers by his mother. Instead of waging war, he arranged the soldiers into an orchestra and began conducting them. The ascent of his career since then has been breathtakingly swift: the winner of a major conducting competition at 23, he was offered Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra at 25; then, in April, on the strength of only two guest appearances, the storied Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that the 26-year-old would succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director...
...that a connection to nature benefits and inspires the human mind - have been knocking around mental-health circles since the early 1990s. But recent and increasing fears of global warming have given the discipline new momentum. At Naropa University, a Buddhist-inspired liberal arts college in Boulder, Colo., Jed Swift has been leading a master's program in ecopsychology for the past four years. In the past three months alone, he has received 100 inquiries into the two-year program, which currently has 14 students. The emphasis of the program is on training students who want to be involved...
...global environmental conditions worsen, many people are recognizing that there are serious problems with the way we relate to the environment," says Swift. "People are drawn to a field like this as a way to help us connect with the environment. They realize there is a potential healing relationship between humans and the natural world...
...Unlike ‘Huckleberry Finn’ or ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ the Potter series is not written on two levels, entertaining one generation while instructing another,” he wrote. “Rather, it is in the category of Tom Swift and Dr. Dolittle; I was hooked on reading by them, but have laid aside my electric rifle and no longer talk to horses...
...nations with more than a billion people each have suddenly embraced capitalism and rejoined the world economy. Hundreds of millions of poor people have been lifted from desperate poverty as a result, and the West should not try to stop the rise of India and China. But the powerful, swift changes in the global economy will also trigger strong repercussions in the West. So nations such as the U.S. need to strive to create new jobs and to weave a stronger safety net ahead of the inevitable losses of employment...