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...particular, infrastructure is not and cannot be the panacea for all the country’s problems, a belief that the Chinese government has unfortunately espoused for much of the last decade. China’s last major infrastructural project—the Three Gorges Dam, the world??s largest hydroelectric power plant—was finished in May 2006. Designed to control flooding and provide electricity to three percent of the nation’s inhabitants, it has even been touted by Forbes as one of the modern wonders of the world...
...summer in England because of their excellent beer. Everyone laughed—but I wasn’t joking. Here in the U.S., yellow piss like Coors is either chugged or doled out as punishment in games designed to minimize exposure to the taste buds. American microbreweries make the world??s best beers, and yet most of us never venture far beyond Natty...
...full of spontaneity and will never come to convergence. However, his ambition to do away with a desire for universal answers to humanity’s problems is as unrealistic as the utopian philosophies he criticizes. A meta-narrative characterizing utopian thought as the ultimate source of the world??s greatest ills is both unsatisfying and unconvincing. Gray’s outlook is bleak: peace and harmony are dreams we will never realize, and more wars of religion and utopia loom overhead as we outstrip the world??s available resources. Gray offers some comfort...
...it’s okay to say, “Oh, I was never much of a science student.” I think it is an embarrassment that our society does not include science in our conversation and...it is up to the future leaders of the world??and I like to think a lot of them will come from Harvard—to understand more science. It’s unbelievably exciting and amazing and the whole world should love it, but for some reason it is frightened by it. —Anna I. Polonyi
...this shouldn’t limit Gen Ed to material only meant for the “real world?? beyond graduation. Will someone sit through a class on the environment and then use that knowledge in his investment bank’s analysis of scalable oil markets? Probably...