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...with leading the restructuring of the College administration, were unsuccessful, and it took more than a month this winter to schedule an interview with Associate Dean of the Faculty for Physical Planning David A. Zewinski ’76. Both are officials who are directly involved in issues of vital interest to our readers and who can provide the kind of context and background that can’t be summed up in a spokesperson’s two-line sound bite...
...there are vital differences between Lewis and Clark's expedition and a Mars mission. First, Lewis and Clark were headed to a place amenable to life; hundreds of thousands of people were already living there. Second, Lewis and Clark were certain to discover places and things of immediate value to the new nation. Third, the Lewis and Clark venture cost next to nothing by today's standards. In 1989 NASA estimated that a people-to-Mars program would cost $400 billion, which inflates to $600 billion today. The Hoover Dam cost $700 million in today's money, meaning that sending...
Total officials insist that, these incidents aside, their efforts to clean up and green up are both sincere and vital for the firm's long-term health. The main reason: they're feeling pressure from investors, not just activists. There's a small but growing industry of politically correct stock funds in Europe, with an estimated $40 billion under management, that invest only in companies they consider socially responsible. "Investors want the best possible investment. Even if ethics is not their cup of tea, they consider companies that take into account good ethical principles to be well managed," says Jean...
...work with them," Mbeki said. But it was too good to be true. Harare quickly asked the courts to silence the Daily News again, and Zimbabwean politicians from both camps said Mbeki was being too optimistic. There was more bad news when Mugabe's government was accused of hoarding vital stocks of grain. The ruling party has in the past been accused of channeling food aid toward its supporters, a practice the World Food Program says it has made all but impossible. But now the government seems to be messing with the commercial food supply. The Grain Marketing Board, which...
Along with GSD colleague Eduard F. Sekler, he envisioned the VES department as a way to harness a vital element of education that was once missing from Harvard...