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...time we finish high school, most of us know Henry David Thoreau as "the eccentric who went into the wild to live monastically," as Robert Sullivan puts it--an image that Sullivan, author of the rodent history Rats, says is entirely wrong. The man who penned Walden and Civil Disobedience was eminently sociable, quite funny and more interested in social critique than in actually persuading people to shun society and live in a shack in the woods. Walden was "written to inspire modern citizens to break out from the lockstep of culture and in so doing make a new connection...
...drilling could impact the marine environment. The oil industry uses seismic blasts as part of initial exploration, and environmentalists fear that sound waves could harm nearby fish. But if there were an accident on the scale of the Valdez in Bristol Bay, where more than 40% of all wild seafood consumed in America is caught, the result would be not just an environmental disaster, but also an economic one. The Bristol fisheries bring in over $2 billion to the Alaskan economy annually - losing the bay even for a short time because of a spill would be "devastating," says Colburn...
...connect with at least some of them men in the audience. He's like 98% of American males, He's one of the vast majority of us - the ones who, under our photos in the high-school yearbook, would find the epithet "Not as funny / hip / studly / smart / wild-and-crazy as he thinks...
...Ones (Harper; 984 pages) is one of those brutalist European maxi-novels that periodically come soaring at us across the Atlantic as if lofted here by a trebuchet. The last one was Roberto Bolaño's 2666, in November. You can recognize them by their seriousness of purpose, their wild overestimation of the reader's attention span and their interest in physical violence that makes Saw look like Dora the Explorer. It's as if these European writers are laughing at their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh at American gangsta rappers. "Violence?" they...
...that the University estimates a 30 percent decline in endowment value by June 30. The Corporation—Harvard’s highest governing body—adjusts the payout rate each year according to endowment returns, ensuring that the amount of money available for budgeting does not experience wild fluctuations from year to year. The University generally targets a 5 to 5.5 percent endowment payout rate, but the payout rate has not exceeded that level since 2004, due to above-average endowment growth in a booming economy. In the current financial climate, maintaining even flat spending from the endowment...