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...recover so swiftly from the typhoon havoc of last week, because the disaster was only part natural-and largely the work of man. Two storms slammed in from the Philippine Sea, hitting the coastal areas of Quezon province north of Manila. Normally, the interior Sierra Madre mountains would block and tame the storms, and the rain would be absorbed by the roots of the trees that line the mountainsides. But the mountains in Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind the towns of Real, Infanta...
...Charlotte Simmons, a 676-page cinder block of a work, attempts to accurately portray, in typical Wolfian anthropological style, life at an elite university. Its failure as a work of journalistic fiction does not stem solely from its carefully sketched out but nonetheless hopelessly clichéd characters, but also from its moral judgment of these characters as if they are objective examples of contemporary youth...
...federal appeals court panel in Philadelphia ruled yesterday that the Pentagon cannot block funding to universities that restrict military recruiters’ access to students, delivering a major victory to gay rights activists who have sought to limit the armed services’ presence on campuses...
...used to be that if your kid decided to redecorate the house in crayon, you had two choices: embrace the new mural or repaint. But now there's Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, a block of melamine foam that lets you remove stains and scuff marks swiftly without breaking a sweat. The material's unique chemical makeup makes it a great cleaner. But beware: rub too long or hard on the same spot, and you'll take the shine off a semigloss surface--or worse...
...with the Administration but then accepted him as an ally after Bush famously said he had looked into Putin's soul. When King Abdullah of Jordan first proposed in the summer of 2002 that Bush launch a road map to peace for the Arab-Israeli conflict, Rice tried to block it but later became a fervent backer. In 2000 she scorned the use of U.S. troops for nation building, but has undertaken monumental military reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq. She led the hard-liners' charge to unilaterally abrogate the antiballistic-missile treaty with Russia but showed a multilateralist streak...