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...over property rights - a struggle that some say began in America with the country's Founding Fathers ( Benjamin Franklin was all for handing out for free the ideas for his inventions like the Franklin Stove) and extended through Yippie Abbie Hoffman (who named his 1971 book about conning the system Steal This Book...
...suppress all footage of the incident (caused by their own TV personnel), blogs and tweets carried cell-phone photos and videos around the world. Ultimately, the government’s inability to stifle the flow of information encapsulates the internal inconsistencies and long-term inviability of the Chinese political system...
...McElroy himself reflects that humans do not “have the right to place the balance of the global life support system at risk when there are sensible actions that can be taken to at least slow the pace of human-induced change.” Put another way, the ethical imperative of preserving our planet outweighs the groundless opinions stubbornly maintained by a global warming skeptic...
...though Japan had only opened its ports to Western trade mere decades prior, nationalistic ambition generated the impetus to fashion Tokyo after the capital cities of Europe with a hope to rival them in opulence and global status. The campaign included an official bureau of tourism, a national park system, improved transportation, and department stores large enough to include swimming pools and zoos.The entire exhibition consists of paintings culled from the collection of Hosokawa Rikizo, a businessman and avid art collector who founded a luxury hotel at the start of the Showa period. Since the works were commisioned, produced...
...recent memo to library staff, Elizabeth Johnson, chief of staff for the librarian of Harvard College, noted that the entire Harvard College Library system is contemplating shutting its doors on Saturdays, due to budget cuts...