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...remains unclear how many were exploded or what, if anything, their warheads contained. While visitors will want to be aware of Lake Issyk-Kul's history, there is no evidence that the testing has caused any lasting damage to the lake's ecology, and both Russian families and avid anglers have happily vacationed there for many years. The Kyrgyz authorities also insist that the lake is perfectly clean and safe. In fact, the only booms you'll come across today will be the sounds of the area's spa industry taking...
...Avid followers of online idiocy, who have spent the last few years of their lives migrating from hotornot.com to Homestar Runner to the Numa Numa dance and beyond, might be unfazed if they heard the Internet characterized as a “dumb” network. The rest of us, though, we discriminating readers of the online edition of The Crimson, we Wikipedians and fans of Google Scholar, might take a bit of offense at such nomenclature.It should come as something of a surprise, then, that creating a dumb network was among the loftiest goals of the founding fathers...
...first glance, the new proposal probably sounds lucrative to average students, most of whom are avid specialists in procrastination before they even set foot in Harvard Yard. The current system does admittedly apply uncomfortable pressure on freshmen to choose fields of study by the end of their first year—but students have an overwhelming tendency to concentrate on decisions only shortly before their deadlines. It is this pressure that incentivizes decision-making and prioritizes concentration consideration over less important, if more immediate, matters. More importantly, the current schedule gives freshmen access to a slate of concentration advising...
These days, it would be amusing to challenge an avid international news reader to find unequivocal agreement in sundry news sources like CNN, BBC News, and The Economist. Yet, they all agree on something: the coming months will be decisive for the future of Latin America. Drawing on the colonial heritage of the Iberian Empire, this region boasts a historical dependence on Baron de Montesquieu’s concept of executive power. And the 18 countries electing presidents this year seem to be leaning further toward what the French author would call, la gauche —the left...
...Some weeks ago, a self-proclaimed “democratic revolution” brought Evo Morales to the Bolivian presidency. A long-time defender of cocaleros (coca growers) and an avid street protester, Morales finally achieved a popular majority leading MAS (Movement to Socialism), an acronym that also means “more” in Spanish. More is precisely what Bolivia needs, following dubious privatization contracts by previous neo-liberal administrations, rampant poverty, and the perennial White House-baked recipe of the “war on drugs.” Yet, a simple fact about Morales seems...