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Many of them, in fact, make considerable sacrifices to move into the classroom. When Tom Carlyle decided to become a teacher, he quit his job as a manager in a Manhattan publishing firm and invested $10,000 in a one-year program for career changers at Harvard's School of...
That Reagan leaves Washington and the nation very different places from those he found is beyond dispute. How much of his personal triumph translates into durable accomplishment is far more debatable. But those doubts will be invisible as Reagan and George Bush ride to the Capitol together. For Reagan, the...
Ultimately, no problem may be more threatening to the earth's environment than the proliferation of the human species. Today the planet holds more than 5 billion people. During the next century, world population will double, with 90% of that growth occurring in poorer, developing countries. African nations are expanding...
The Soviet environmental disaster has been a long time in the making. Beginning in the days of Stalin, ecological concerns were shunted aside in the rush toward industrialization. Valovaya produktsiya, a phrase that translates into "gross output" and is abbreviated as val, was at the heart of the problem. Industry...
On issues from zoning to animal research, Harvard gets its way in Cambridge City Hall--in many cases, City Councillors say, against the wishes of community residents. Some add that the University's wealth readily translates into political power on the local level.