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Ramaswamy said that Gross shared “a lot of agreement about student sentiment” with the College representatives...
...heights would be 55 feet and that they might rise to 75 feet,” he said of the design, which shows buildings that range in height from 88 to more than 200 feet. “How can this building considerably be thought of to honor that agreement...
...Despite the much-ballyhooed February agreement among North Korea, four of its neighbors and the U.S. that would have Pyongyang dismantle its nuclear weapons program, thus far there has been very little progress towards meeting that goal. And watching North Korea successfully stall may reinforce the bravado of the Iranian leadership...
...planning for the movement of millions of environmental refugees. Others argue that while such preparations are a matter of urgency because of the warming trend already in motion, at the same time, if carbon emissions continue to rise, so will temperatures, intensifying the crisis. But there's broad agreement on the economic logic of immediate global action, says Robert Watson, the chief scientist for the World Bank and a former chair of the IPCC: "The cost of mitigation will be less than the cost of inaction...
...Hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans share Jeevatharsini's scars. In 2002 the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.), as the rebels call themselves, signed a cease-fire designed to lead to a political agreement. While the rebels want a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka's north and east, the government wants to keep the island whole. A federation seemed a possible compromise. But peace talks sputtered and then collapsed (both sides accused the other of being insincere), and since December 2005, Sri Lanka has again been at undeclared war with itself. The latest...