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...Watching the major sporting events in my freshman year with a greater-than-usual sense of confusion, I couldn’t help asking questions: Why can none of these teams settle for a draw? Why do these competitions featuring only American participants contain the word “world?? in their title? Why is America inclined—contrary to its capitalist ethos—to reward bottom-placed (read “failing”) teams with the first choice in the draft? Come to think of it, why is there a draft?The answers...
...outbreaks. “If we think we can outwit Mother Nature, we have another thing coming to us,” Zucker said. “We’re not done with the issue of pandemics. Something else will come forth.” To improve the world??s ability to combat future outbreaks, Zucker supported the adoption of a set of 2007 World Health Organization recommendations advocating things like increased transparency and cooperation among nations in matters of public health. “A healthy society is truly a more secure society...
...example, Harvard has allowed a new Finale—an expensive dessert shop with branches throughout metropolitan Boston—to open on its Allston properties. The irony could not be richer: The world??s wealthiest university is saying “let them eat cake” to a working-class neighborhood recently deprived of a grocery store in the name of progress and science...
...debilitating dependence on foreign oil and has made our transportation system lag behind others in the developed world, as countries like South Korea, France, Taiwan, and Spain have invested heavily in relatively efficient, fast, and safe high-speed trains that connect major metropolitan areas. Even China, the world??s largest developing economy, is making strides in this area—one can now take a high-speed bullet train from Pudong airport to downtown Shanghai in less than 20 minutes...
...some things were meant to have order), watching the stars. He was discovering that the stars have no order, or at least none immediately discernable. He knew, of course, that there must be some pattern. Everything in nature, no matter how obscure, no matter how frequently, participated in the world??s rhythm. He believed deeply in such things. But just now he was feeling very small. For being unable to find the rhythm in something so vast. But he was comforted as he lay there, discovering that the order of things was/is/will be his smallness, lying...