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...Nearly 80 million babies are born a year, all of whom need food, energy and housing. The simplest and most significant thing any of us can do to save our beautiful planet is to limit the size of our families. Yet not a word about population restraint in your Heroes issue. Lorna Currie Thomopoulos, COBHAM, ENGLAND...
...Golf Crash Sean Gregory starts his article "Crash Course" [Oct. 6] with the words "Golf carts are fun little buggers." If Mr. Gregory or the editors of TIME had checked a dictionary for the correct definition of the word "bugger," your readers would not have been subjected to such cheap, inaccurate and irresponsible journalism. Peter Woodward, MIERLO, NETHERLANDS
...commission, which is the keeper of those rules, has already given its green light. "The existence of exceptional circumstances allows a deficit temporarily above but close to 3% of GDP not to be considered as excessive," it said after the announcement of the coordinated bank bailout. The crucial word there is "temporarily." Much of Europe's economic growth over the past few years came about because of a self-imposed fiscal discipline. But, as Patrice Poncet, a finance professor at ESSEC Business School in France, points out: "It's the tendency of politicians to turn temporary measures into permanent ones...
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...presents an acute case of internal inconsistency. The idea of a university, of liberal learning— which Harvard claims to exemplify—is a product of the West, and was founded largely on classical models and entirely immersed in the study of classical languages. Yet the very word itself—in Latin, universitas—suggests, even if it did not originally imply, a certain universality, an ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate all ideas, whether Western or not. Just because the Greeks invented philosophy does not mean that no other culture can learn from its insights.Characterized...