| The Wisdom of the Snail
Finally, we need to urgently rediscover the wisdom of the snail —Slow Food's symbol — and degrowth. The snail not only teaches us the virtue of slowness, but has another even more important lesson. ‘The snail', writes Ivan Illich, ‘constructs the delicate architecture of its shell by adding ever increasing spirals one after the other, but then it abruptly stops and winds back in the reverse direction. In fact, just one additional larger spiral would make the shell sixteen times bigger. Instead of being beneficial, it would overload the snail. Any increase in the snail's productivity would only be used to offset the difficulties created by the enlargement of the shell beyond its preordained limits. Once the limit to increasing spiral size has been reached, the problems of excessive growth multiply exponentially, while the snail' s biological capability, in the best of cases, can only show linear growth and increase arithmetically'.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Announces 1st Quarter Earnings ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) , a leading provider of title insurance, specialty insurance and claims management services, will release 1st quarter 2007 earnings after the close of regular market trading on Wednesday, April 25, 2007. A conference call will follow on Thursday, April 26, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Those wishing to participate via the webcast should access the call through FNF's Investor Relations website at http://www.fnf.com/. Those wishing to participate via the telephone may dial-in at 888-428- 4472(USA) or 612-332-0932(International). The conference call replay will be available via webcast through FNF's Investor Relations website at http://www.fnf.com/. The telephone replay will be available from 1:30p.m.
Educators devise ways to make grads succeed in new WTO era
Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) talked with three education experts about World Trade Organisation (WTO) integration and Vietnamese universities. Nguyen Thien Nhan, Minister of Education and Training As a member of the WTO, there are lots of challenges and opportunities ahead. Viet Nams education system hasnt met our social needs. Therefore, Viet Nam recently organised an international forum where educators discussed how to train our young to meet employers needs. Eight countries, including our own, participated in the talks. During the forum, we found many countries are facing the same problem of developing programmes and training for students that get them jobs after graduating. In order to address the problem, employers and universities need to work together to develop appropriate education strategies.
A History of Women in Sport Prior to Title IX
Women's opportunities for competitive physical activity were limited in America until Federal Legislation, commonly referred to as Title IX, became law. It required American society to recognize a woman's right to participate in sports on a plane equal to that of men. Prior to 1870, activities for women were recreational rather than sport-specific in nature. They were noncompetitive, informal, rule-less; they emphasized physical activity rather than competition. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, women began to form clubs that were athletic in nature. Efforts to limit women's sport activity continued as they became more involved in competitive sports. This paper will present a history of women's involvement in sport prior to the federal legislation enacted to eliminate sexual discrimination in education and sport.
UMass students aim to revoke honorary degree for Mugabe
Student leaders at the University of Massachusetts at Boston are calling on trustees to revoke an honorary degree given more than 20 years ago to Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, who is increasingly scorned worldwide for what many consider a brutal and bloody regime. The request, which the Undergraduate Student Senate passed unanimously Wednesday, will be presented to trustees at their June meeting. Should the trustees approve the request, it will be the first time the board has revoked an honorary degree. "I think it casts a bad shadow on the university system to honor someone like that with a degree," said Shauna Murray, a member of the Non-Aligned Club, a student group that advocates against human rights abuses and has circulated a petition to rescind the degree.
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