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Connor wrote that he thought the new track would attract more students to the concentration...
...feel that it should remain a Core class simply because it may attract individuals who never venture to the Social Studies or Af-Am concentration section of the course catalog to consider taking the class and seeing how the history and lives of roughly 8 percent of their peers are relevant to their own,” she wrote in an e-mail...
...network would allow engineers, with the help of gravity, to divert water from wet areas to dry as easily as power companies manage the electrical grid. Environmentalists are aghast. In addition to the phenomenal engineering and maintenance costs, as well as the corruption that such a megaproject might attract, they say the plan-which essentially throws more clogging dams and embankments at the problem-is simply bad science...
...Mughals back in the 16th century to irrigate much of central India-and focuses instead on dams and embankments for flood prevention. Yet because India's flood-control infrastructure is poorly maintained, dams and embankments often block rather than facilitate drainage, says Dasgupta, while their huge construction costs might attract corruption. Says Pushpender Kumar Singh, regional manager for flood-relief group Action Aid: "[Floods] used to go by in two or three days. Now, they'll be here until March. So no crops. And more disease." As a result, he predicts 3,000 drowning and disease deaths just in Bihar...
...current stats are any indication, the Rock the Vote Bus Tour has managed to attract 2,729 people to register since its June 16 kick-off in Los Angeles, said national tour bus manager Lindsay Berman...