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Participation in the service is currently voluntary. But according to Susan Walsh—the executive director for information technology infrastructure—individual academic units may decide to require participation at a later date.

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Text Message Alerts | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

Voluntary testing and recalls have clearly failed to stop lead-painted children's jewelry from entering the U.S. market. After the CPSC recalled 150 million pieces of toy jewelry in 2004, new guidelines "urged manufacturers generally to reduce the lead content of their products." Since then at least 21 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Christmas, A Lump of Lead? | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Fuzzy targets won't be enough to stem the tide of climate change, however. "Voluntary agreements aren't bad, but unless you have hard caps and trade, you can't get the investment going for real innovation," says Annie Petsonk, international counsel for Environmental Defense. For that to happen, voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the World Improve on Kyoto? | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

The wealth accrued by high-ranking members of the IRGC by such contracts has raised concerns within the Iranian establishment, chiefly because it threatens to provoke the resentment of the organization's young, working-class rank and file. In 2001, three-quarters of Guard members voted for moderate President Mohammad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Rich Revolutionary Guard | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

It is this second arrangement - democracy and taxation - that has broken down in our country today. People don't have faith that their votes get translated into governing arrangements that reflect the popular judgment about what the government should do and how it should be paid for. I would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Service? Puh-lease | 9/4/2007 | See Source »

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