18 December 2009
In the news today: President Obama announced a climate-protection agreement with China and a few other countries. Early reports suggest halving of anthropogenic carbon emissions by 2050. That would be a worthy intermediate target on our way to climate sustainability. Will the agreement have teeth? Or will it be just words on a page?
I finished a marathon effort to review and guide revising of two PhD dissertations, signing today my approval only hours before the students' submission deadlines. A concern: I seem to be more bothered than they were when some details were not right. Do all these words matter? Or do we just have "be noticed to be by her eye step and contest worked?"
From where are these words?
(a) The US Post Office in the Elmwood, on College Avenue near Ashby.
(b) The Underhill Field, on College Avenue halfway between Dwight and Bancroft.
(c) The western side of the Boalt Hall Law School building near College and Bancroft.
I pass by all three regularly as I walk or bike between home and campus.
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