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...What am I supposed to tell my two young children after reading about the agrifuels debacle? "Kids, we've probably got about five to ten years left. Don't worry about the environment - it's too late"? You report that we are still mowing down precious jungle in 2008. Monkeys are smart enough not to do that. If deforestation continues at this rate, then I'd like to register a word - anthropocide: to knowingly eliminate the human species. Marshall Rowe, Merewether, New South Wales...
...breath for Dakota Fanning, Miley Cyrus, and Abigail Breslin. Way before ever becoming an agent, Iris Burton got her start as a dancer on Broadway and then in Hollywood. One of her only two film credits is as an unnamed dancer alongside Charlton Heston in “The Ten Commandments.” Curiously, Heston passed away on the same day as Burton, and the two seem kindred spirits. In later life, while one championed the National Rifle Association after a wave of school-shootings, the other rifled through new headshots just days after the funeral...
...Nicholas is always arrestingly bright and completely human. He is cruel to his children—their memories of him inevitably include insults and beatings—and abandons his wife. Yet Nicholas also has a much softer, thoughtful, and loving side. He remains dedicated to his wife even ten years after he leaves her, because, as he cryptically explains, “she understood the geometry of things.” But while Docx’s talent for character creation is impressive, it can sometimes lead him toward caricature. It is as if Docx, justly reliant...
...prevent University Hall from remedying this situation by keeping the number of faculty members consistent throughout the 2008-2009 school year. This translates to hiring 25-30 new faculty members to replace those who are leaving or retiring, which when compared with the average hiring rates in the last ten years, represents a 30 percent decrease. While Smith’s desire for hiring flexibility in the face of FAS administrative restructuring and the departmental changes that accompany the General Education review comes with good reason, students nonetheless still deserve to have their basic academic needs met. To lead...
...Catherine S. Manegold, a research fellow and resident at Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute last year, is currently doing research for a book entitled “Ten Hills Farm,” named for the Medford property which Royall Jr. purchased with the profits from the Antiguan sugar plantation...