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Besides improving environmental sustainability, HUDS has also been refreshingly responsive to student initiatives on a number of issues in this vein. For instance, HUDS agreed to use cage-free eggs and free-trade coffee after students raised concerns. [see correction below] It would have been easy for HUDS simply to ignore both of these inconvenient and presumably expensive initiatives. HUDS’s willingness to go to lengths to make such changes demonstrates genuine concern for student opinion on its part...
...less brutal. Research indicates that the anesthetic can wear off, while another drug keeps the condemned paralyzed, thus giving the illusion of serenity, underscored with massive unseen pain. The drugs are known to take anywhere between seven minutes to two hours to be effective, and finding a suitable vein is often a long, torturous ordeal. It is stupefying to fathom that lethal injection, which has been used for almost 25 years, is only now being seen as cruel and unusual punishment. This makes lethal injection more insidious. By disguising the true horror of execution with medicine, lethal injection anesthetizes society...
...Hoppípolla” and “Njósnavélin.” “Í Gær,” which was featured in the trailer for “Heima,” is an epic composition in the vein of “Saeglópur” and “Popplagið.”Though about half of “Hvarf-Heim” is outstanding, the other tracks seem basically pointless. Reworked versions of “Samskeyti” and “Vaka?...
...Much as Singapore has done in Southeast Asia, Tunisia has succeeded by galvanizing the raw potential of its people. It's an impressive instance of a country farsightedly making a virtue out of necessity: despite being wedged between energy giants Libya and Algeria, Tunisia has few natural resources; no vein of gems or minerals runs under its desert flatlands...
...Colbert Report this past February and summed up the brain in 5 words. Can you sum up being an academic rock star in 5 words? Bonus rock star points for fewer words. SP: Oh my goodness, (long swig of coffee). Deep ideas, light touch.8. FM: In a similar vein, Geoffrey Sampson wrote an entire book countering the arguments in The Language Instinct. We think that makes you something of a badass. Can you talk a little bit about what the word badass says about human nature?SP: I think the “ass” is just like...