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<div>MIT has SHASS, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences... Programs in music, literature, theater, writing...</div>
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<div><a href="http://web.mit.edu/shass/undergraduate/programs/majors.shtml">http://web.mit.edu/shass/undergraduate/programs/majors.shtml</a></div>
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<div>As to the irony of quoting Macbeth off an MIT website... whatever! </div>
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<div>But consider this MIT offering, related to the theme of "The Earth is our mother, and we are all her children..." under "Sustainability @ MIT," covering the subject of our beleaguered biosphere, the MIT Environmental Film Festival, a week worth of films. It would be great to see the U of I sponsor such an event, or maybe the Kenworthy?
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<div><a href="http://sustainability.mit.edu/Environmental_Film_Festival">http://sustainability.mit.edu/Environmental_Film_Festival</a></div>
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<div>It appears there is quite a focus at MIT on the environmental and energy crisis our planet is facing:</div>
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<p>Hockfield thanked the members of the Energy Research Council (ERC) for articulating recommendations that will allow MIT, with its unique talents and capabilities, to address what she called "one of the most urgent challenges of our time."
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<p>"The need for new global supplies of affordable, sustainable energy is perhaps the single greatest challenge of the 21st century," the report stated. "Increasing tension between supply and demand is exacerbated by rapidly escalating energy use in developing countries, security issues facing current energy systems and global climate change. These converging factors create an unprecedented scenario requiring a multifaceted approach to increasingly urgent energy issues."
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Hansen</b> <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">No offense intended, at all, towards (I didn't even think it existed) the Liberal Arts Department of MIT, but quoting Shakespeare's "Macbeth" from an MIT website seems just a tad ironic.
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Just a thought.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"Which way to the egress?"</span></font></p></div>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I could attempt an answer... I rehearsed, with poetic inspiration and lofty, passionate ideals, philosophical dissection and illumination, scientific precision and wonderment, the complexities of political and economic systems, the universals and particulars of spiritual struggle, the Eros of human compassion and empathy, the unthinkable and horrifying depths of evil, cruelty and deception, and...
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"The Earth is our mother, and we are all her children, down to the most infinitesimal living being...We live or die insofar as we respect this truth"
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This ridiculous, laughable, simpleton, childlike statement will be dismissed my most...It suggests more than I am capable of articulating. But if all that this statement implies was "respected," this might be an answer to your question, which for some reason felt I should answer seriously, and simply, however silly my response...
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Despite my all too human need to feel I have the human condition, our place in the universe, figured out, that I can make sense of it all, really, I have no clue!
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<p><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_19"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">She should have died hereafter;</span></font></a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_20">There would have been a time for such a word.
</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_21">To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_22">Creeps in this petty pace from day to day </a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_23">To the last syllable of recorded time,
</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_24">And all our yesterdays have lighted fools</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_25">The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_26">Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_27">That struts and frets his hour upon the stage</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_28">And then is heard no more: it is a tale</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_29">Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
</a><br><a name="110260f73eedfc4e_30">Signifying nothing. </a></p></blockquote></span><span class="e" id="q_110260f73eedfc4e_3"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span id=""></span></span>
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<p><span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On 1/14/07, <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com" target="_blank">
debismith@moscow.com</a></span></b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com" target="_blank">debismith@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Ted, very true. Anyone who believes his or her own bull can lie with a straight face, dissemble<br>until dawn, and give you a Hale-Fellow-Well-Met firm handshake while picking your pocket.
<br>Politicians have to believe their own BS to get elected. They also have to be able to baffle with<br>their BS all those voters who will fall for a con.<br><br>I met both these men when they were candidates--I knew Brady wouldn't get elected because
<br>he was a real person. While being near Butch raised the hair on the back of my neck, I looked<br>at the folks around him and knew they were believing everything he said and inventing wonders<br>he hadn't said, and I knew he was gonna get elected. People love to be lied to. Just look at
<br>those (fewer than six months ago!) Bushites---they know he's a damn liar, but they don't care.<br>They will invent their own story to justify his lies because they can't admit they were conned.<br><br>Also keep in mind that the easiest person to con is a con artist...they do believe there is a
<br>quick fix, a magic bean, a real get-rich-quick scheme. Bushites, and Otterists, and<br>ChickenHawks, oh my....Barnum was right! Which way to the egress?<br><br>Debi R-S</span></font></p></div>
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