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Indeed, the looming H1N1 crisis right around the corner has possibly surpassed the scariness of our budget crisis. Whereas e-mails reflecting our budget crisis alert us to the discontinuance of our personal course guides, the regular H1N1 updates seem to threaten the very functioning of our university...
...quantity with quality, reaffirming his status as one of hip-hop’s greats.Instead of chopping just one lyrically weak foe down to size with his usual scathing battle raps, Jay sent a whole slew of cookie-cutter rappers running for cover in early June with an airwave alert in the form of “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune).” Throwing down the gauntlet to a burgeoning generation of indistinguishably mechanized MCs, Jay holds no punches, rattling off a list of rap game faux pas: “You boys’ jeans too tight...
...separate the noise from the truth; for every actual outbreak of a new disease, there are countless false or overstated reports. But in an interconnected age, when both information and disease can spread in an instant, having an imperfect network is better than none at all. "This is an alert tool that is not trying to raise fear but awareness instead," says Brownstein. "We want to encourage good public-health information, and at the end of the day that's what this app is about." Knowing too much may be scary, but knowing nothing is far more dangerous...
...case has reinvigorated support for H.R. 1623, the "International Megan's law," which Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, introduced in March 2009. If passed, the bill would alert officials abroad when U.S. sex offenders intend to travel and would encourage other countries to keep sex-offender lists and notify American officials about offenders' U.S. travel plans. U.S. law can grab American predators overseas. Sporich, along with Ronald Boyajian, 49, and Erik Peeters, 41, were charged under the Protect Act, which was enacted six years ago to strengthen federal laws related to predatory crimes committed outside...
Lubchenco is helping to change that. The marine biologist is leading the U.S. delegation at this week's World Climate Conference in Geneva, where delegates from more than 150 nations are meeting to craft a better global alert system for climate change. That means disseminating information down to the local level - how global warming could impact fisheries, farming, human health, even tourism. "What we need is a formal system that all people can trust to access vital information that can save their lives and protect property and economies," said Michel Jarraud, secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization...