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...much of the world - climate change had dropped somewhat on the international agenda. That will always be a risk for this most long-term of challenges, where the penalties and payoffs of policy changes will unfold over decades. "The true test of leadership is to take the long view," Ban said...
...fact, leaders have had no problem taking the long view on climate change; G-8 nations have agreed to reduce global emissions 50% by 2050. But as India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told reporters, "It's the height of dishonesty to have a target for 2050 because none of us will be around to be held accountable." What the world really needs is for its leaders to think short term, to make the hard pledges that are required to start bringing global carbon emissions down. They can start at Copenhagen. And they should remember the words of Mohamed Nasheed...
Despite the government's view that cell phones pose no danger, some researchers note that most of us have been using them for less than a decade. If there is indeed a cumulative risk to using a mobile phone, it's possible that users won't be aware of it until it's too late - just as it took doctors decades to connect cigarette-smoking with lung cancer. "We all wish we'd heeded the early warnings about cigarettes," says Olga Naidenko, a senior scientist at EWG and the author of the recent report on cell phones. "We think cell...
...subject like Harvard,” writes Richard P. Bissell ’36 in “You Can Always Tell A Harvard Man.” “One is to take the subway cars from Park Street or South Station, getting a fine view of the Carter’s Ink sign as you cross over the Charles River bridge...
Speaking to an intimate gathering of Harvard’s literary community last night, guest speaker John D’Agata spoke out against the view that most people “are fearful of the essay because they were things that we had to do here in school...