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Waking from Sustainability's "Impossible Dream": The Decisionmaking Realities of Business and Government
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I. THE "IMPOSSIBLE DREAM"
Medieval alchemists sought unsuccessfully to discover the process that would enable them to turn base metal into gold-assigning the name "Philosopher's Stone" to what they sought. The quest was doomed to failure. Just as a "sow's ear" cannot become a "silk purse," a base metal cannot become gold. Sustainability is impossible for the same reasons. It asks us to be something we are not, both individually and as a political and economic community. It is impossibl...
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The Impossible Dream
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John Connelly proudly penned the `Impossible Dream' LP that became Hub's long-playing hit.(Sports)
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; ... For it was John Connelly, a onetime Boston Herald copy boy and news writer for the original WHDH-TV in Boston, who created the clever ... sense of humor. He'd write two or three of the segments for the news, but he also wrote wonderful features for us. He took so much ...
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Reader's poem; AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM.(Features)
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; Byline: GEORGE CARRICK TO dream the impossible dream, Reaching for that out of reach, Something beyond you. To be where you've never been before, Among strangers and oceans of blue. To search through each cloud, for that Intangible something, waiting there Especially for you. To fly, as if by
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Digging deep to realise a dream ; Three Paralympians from Tavistock's Kelly College are hoping to live out 'an impossible dream'.
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; Three Paralympians from Tavistock's Kelly College are hoping to live out 'an impossible dream'. Fifteen-year-old swimmers Louise Watkin, Laura Steadman and Claire Cashmore are taking part in 14 events between them at Beijing's Paralympics next month. All are rated in the world's top three at
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