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!!!!

Posted by: pratimaaa on: Wednesday, November 5, 2008

I am SO RELIEVED. Things are going to be awesome, guys. Congrats Americans, you did it!

a jumble of things

Posted by: pratimaaa on: Wednesday, July 23, 2008

1. I got back from Japan last Monday. I had wonderful company and a fabulous time. Coming home was awfully dull and made worse by the fact that I had terrible jet lag that lasted me almost an entire week. I had nothing of real purpose to do last week outside of going to class [...]

a dilemma of luxury

Posted by: monochromegirl on: Sunday, April 13, 2008

This caught my eye while browsing the NY Times yesterday. “Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?” reads the headline. In a nutshell, Andrew C. Revkin reports on the first international conference on manufacturing meat and considers the implications of our largely carnivorous ways, the growing demand for animal protein in developing parts of [...]

Spitzer’s Spigot

Posted by: raycraft on: Friday, March 21, 2008

In an attempt not to rant, I will keep this to as few words as possible:
Why does society condemn ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who over the course of his career has sued the Bush administration on several counts of ecological crimes, taken steps to give “illegal aliens” driver’s licenses, and moved to allow [...]