Word: unsound
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Your examples of modern design are overwhelmingly cheap plastic junk. It's frightening how Americans shrink-wrap and live in so much environmentally unsound plastic. We should use it only where it is best suited: electronics hardware, kitchen utensils and packaging. Classy design that can stand the test of time will always come in the form of distinctive and natural woods, metals, stone and leather. ERIK GAUGER Redondo Beach, Calif...
...prominent Harvard faculty, including Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., have declared their support for providing monetary reparations to the descendants of American slaves. Although the desire to come to terms with mistakes of the past is commendable, monetary reparations for slavery would be fundamentally unsound, with insurmountable problems of implementation as well as deep moral and philosophical flaws...
Harvard environmental activists have joined a web-based action campaign to encourage students not to accept jobs with companies alleged to be ecologically unsound...