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...number of estimates as to the financial effects of a pandemic. Some range as high as a 5% drop in global GDP. The calculations that would go into an exercise to come up with a reasonable guess would require more work than the entire length of the recession would allow. But, a pandemic is a long shot for several reasons. The most obvious reason is that healthcare and disease monitoring are much more sophisticated now than they were just six years ago at the beginning of the SARS epidemic, which turned out fortunately not to be an epidemic...
...gushes about one of his favorite creations, a device that applies physics to allow his eye movements to maneuver his computer cursor. And that one, he built before college...
...made an attempt to escape two days earlier and was hauled back to the lifeboat. Were our forces inattentive? Out of range? Or unauthorized to help? Getting a feel for situations like these takes time. Even Ronald Reagan, with his reputation for decisiveness, never did settle whether to allow the Marines he sent to help keep peace in Lebanon in 1982 to use deadly force to protect themselves. The Iranian speedboats that threatened oil tankers in the Persian Gulf in the late 1980s confused the U.S. Navy, much as Somali speedboats have befuddled the navies now trying to police...
...immerse the HUPD more broadly into campus life creates opportunities for non-enforcement interactions between the HUPD and students. For example, an “account management system” would allow the HUPD to enlist individual officers in outreach efforts. Each officer would be assigned to manage a few accounts, and various student groups, Houses, administrators, and faculty members would be represented in a uniquely managed account. In order to be successful, these accounts must fulfill their reciprocal responsibility to join in the HUPD officers’ efforts. By conducting a safety seminar, attending a student group meeting...
...from making his speech and sending his message to the world; with those nations who did stay presumably supportive or neutral toward Ahmedinejad, the applause drawn by the Iranian leader seemed all the louder, coming as it did from these remaining delegations. What it did do instead was to allow the controversy surrounding his disparagement of Israel to overshadow efforts to address other pressing topics like slavery, genocide, and xenophobia...