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...None of this is to be confused with hurricane tracking, whose famous "cone of probability" has indeed become a dependable asset to those of us in a storm's path. The accuracy with which the National Hurricane Center here in Miami now forecasts a storm's strength as well as the time and place of its arrival, not just hours but days in advance, is a tribute to turn-of-the-century advances in meteorological spy hardware. But until seasonal forecasts like Colorado State's become more consistent, the best we can do during Hurricane Preparedness Week is just accept...
...daily (from all sources) to the U.S., more than any country, including Saudi Arabia. That's about 20% of total U.S. imports. "Canada has emerged as an energy superpower," says economist Peter Tertzakian of Calgary-based ARC Financial Corp., an energy-investment firm with a nearly $1.9 billion asset portfolio. He adds that going forward, 10% to 15% of the world's incremental oil production will come from Canada's oil sands...
...chivalry in the face of talk-radio furies and bloggers attacking, as one commenter did, "the bitter, anti-American, ungrateful, rude, crude, ghetto, angry Michelle Obama." But it also may signal that as attention turns to the general campaign, Michelle could be a liability as well as an asset. Her speeches can sound stark and stern compared with her husband's roof raisers. He's all about the promise; she's more about the problem. It's not just that she says times are hard and "we're not where we need to be"; with that, the vast majority...
...University tends to offer more reasonable rents to its preferred businesses, which are local businesses and not national chains, so they actually contacted me about the space,” the J.P. Licks founder said. “That they see us as an asset to the entire Harvard community was actually very flattering...
...aggregate.” Reverend Kenneth B. Miller, chairman of the Census Advisory Committee on the African American Population, praised Williams’s initial recommendations, which she presented at the group’s annual meeting last month. “She certainly will be a tremendous asset,” he said. The Census Bureau formed the Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees in the 1980s to address the systematic undercounting of minority populations. Five such committees now meet annually and advise the Census Bureau on the issue. Sociology professor Waters said she thinks Williams’s previous...