Peru: On the front lines – glacial retreat, human march |
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“For the first time in history, we see more people living in the cities than in rural areas… and they are forming larger and larger homeless populations within those cities.” |
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A poet’s laurels |
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It’s not often you get to recite a poem for a former poet laureate. But this is the Aspen Ideas Festival, and anything can happen. At the speakers’ dinner tonight, our intern Aaron Jaffe and I found ourselves in fascinating conversation with poet Billy Collins about art’s role in shaping public opinion. Somehow the topic [...] |
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A weighty paper |
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It could have been a key fob or even a set of gourmet mustard, the sweet tangy kind or perhaps spicy horseradish. I had just finished my speech to the Aspen Rotary following a luncheon on top of Aspen Mountain as deep teal thunderclouds wove around distant peaks. In the closing moments of the meeting, [...] |
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Making science sensual |
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With feeling. |
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China’s isolated showers |
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Shanghai’s experiencing isolated showers. But will the forecast call for pain? |
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Oil and water |
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With the gravity of describing a state secret, the counter clerk at Carl’s Pharmacy on Main Street in Aspen leaned over and whispered to the customer who was buying a bottle of water. “You know, water is the next oil,” she said. The irony wasn’t lost on the customer, a Chevron senior executive, who described [...] |
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Big Ideas |
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I’ve landed in Aspen just in time to hear Dr. Peter Gleick and his Big Idea at the opening ceremonies of the third annual Aspen Ideas Festival. “Maybe less is better,” Gleick declared to the audience gathered this afternoon in the Greenwald Pavilion. The world should be prepared for shifts in economies, scale and living [...] |
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Thinking about water |
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Sallai Meridor, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., was waiting quietly to board his flight to Aspen. I introduced myself and he knowingly smiled when I said I’d be leading a session about water at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “I grew up thinking about water,” he replied, his voice revealing an intimacy with water tracing back [...] |
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