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Ever since the Soviet Union consigned itself to the ash heap of history (along with the Pentagon's annual publication on Soviet Military Power), Congress has ordered the U.S. military to report annually "on the current and future military strategy of the People's Republic of China." So on Monday, the Pentagon turned out a 66-page report to help Congress foster its own fears. It's part of a symbiotic relationship: Congress orders the study, and then lawmakers get to cite it as justification for buying more weapons. Some in national-security circles refer to the phenomenon...
...Ground Forces Indonesia is both blessed and cursed by geology. Volcanic ash contributes to the archipelago's fecund soil. Yet eruptions periodically kill thousands. Indonesia is also rich in minerals and oil, exporting nearly half a million barrels a day. All told, the country's buried wealth accounts for almost 30% of its total exports. But the same grinding geologic processes that make this wealth possible also bedevil Indonesia with disasters like the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 160,000 people in Sumatra. Lusi is unlike any previous disaster, however. Unfolding in implacable slow motion...
...Today, Mudakir's village, along with much of the rest of Porong, is gone, swallowed by an ash-gray lake of mud. The noxious sludge, incredibly, continues to flow at a rate of up to 5.3 million cu. ft. (150,000 cu m) a day - enough to fill 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools. In total, Porong has been smothered beneath nearly 3.5 billion cu. ft. (100 million cu m) of the stuff. The mud has buried 12 villages, displaced around 16,000 people and caused more than a dozen deaths. Porong hasn't just been destroyed; it has been erased...
...fifth-places from freshmen Jennifer Reese and Anne Taylor. On Sunday, Papadakis, who is also a former Crimson sports writer, bested Princeton’s top three divers with 325.95 points in the one-meter dive. Senior Alison Pipitone grabbed fifth place in the event and freshman Marissa Ash finished in sixth. “The divers are a huge part of the team that can really make or break the meet,” co-captain Lindsay Hart said. “It’s so great that we now have seven divers on our team with...
...Anne Taylor, combining for one of Harvard’s two event sweeps of the afternoon. Freshmen Katy Hinkle and Ali Slack and sophomore Vanda Gyuris took 1-2-3 in the 100-yard freestyle as well.All four of the Crimson’s divers, including freshman Marissa Ash, qualified for the NCAA Zone Diving Meet with their performances.Harvard won the 200-yard medley relay, the first event of the day, and never looked back. Hinkle, co-captain Jackie Pangilinan, freshman Katherine Pickard, and Slack won the race in 1:47.80. The Crimson’s team of sophomore Natalia...