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...surrounding coral reefs. It only takes a quick peek below the surface of the island's tranquil waters to see the devastating consequences of unfettered local fishing practices. The sea floor off the coast, once heralded as one of Sulawesi's richest reefs, is now a barren, white wasteland of shattered coral, eerie stillness and craters the size of a child's inflatable wading pool. The effects of dynamite fishing are hard to miss...
Meanwhile, the Core Curriculum still lives, a grim intellectual wasteland that blights the career of all undergraduates with its tedious and facile offerings that neither energize nor educate. It must be scrapped when it comes up for review next year and replaced with a distribution requirement that does not limit student choice and stultify students’ intellect. Instead of making the sweeping reforms suggested by Summers’ inaugural speech, the only change has been to exempt students from one additional requirement. And while exempting students from another requirement is a welcome step, it fails to address the larger...
...eyes of the University are looking longingly across the River, with the ample space in Allston and the local citizens genuinely interested in seeing the University improve what for so long has been an industrial wasteland...
...WATERWORLD Without H2O, it would all be wasteland. With it, Nizwa is a lush oasis of date palms about 165 km from Muscat. Its recently restored 17th century fort is the largest structure from that era on the Arabian peninsula. Check out the deceptive architecture featuring false passageways, as well as the underground stream that provided a steady source of water in case of siege...
...well--which could deplete the region's water reserves and, because much of the underground water has a high salt content, potentially destroy thousands of acres of farmland. Ranchers also fear that the roads, pipelines and power lines needed for the project will turn their open prairies into industrial wasteland...