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...natural river routes and marshlands that replenish the land and sucking out the oil and other subterranean resources that hold up the surface. Now, many experts warn, with greenhouse gases raising global temperatures, we are spawning more and deadlier hurricanes, ones that could kill a city in a single blow--if Katrina hasn't already done that to New Orleans, Gulfport and Biloxi...
...achieved by the sword. Zeeshan Ahmad Lahore Oil Pressure In the interview with U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte [April 24], Time should have asked whether he realizes that another Pearl Harbor is around the corner. It will be not a military attack but a political and economic blow that will cripple the U.S. Tehran and Moscow share a common interest: to drastically reduce the political power of the U.S. in the Middle East. Once Iran has the Bomb, Tehran and Moscow will practically control the world oil supply and could blackmail the U.S. and Europe. In the past...
Hopefully it will not take another Chernobyl to finally convince people that something needs to change. It may seem as though the dangers posed by nuclear energy are as far away as Ukraine, but if the winds blow just right, radiation from Vermont Yankee may just float down to Cambridge to change your mind...
...insubstantial work of chick-literature. Although I am not a Harvard College graduate, I was the student chief justice at Wellesley College many years ago and presided over many plagiarism cases. Intellectual integrity cannot be compromised at an academic institution. Kaavya has dealt Harvard’s reputation a blow by associating the Harvard name (no doubt part of the marketing strategy) first with chick-literature and then with plagiarism—all for a quick $500,000 advance. MARTHA M. RE Metairie, La. April...
...more 'load paths,'" Foster explains, using the engineer's term for the lines along which a framework carries a building's weight. "So if you take away some of that structure, the loads redistribute themselves." That's another way of saying that if a terrorist truck bomb were to blow away part of the lower floors, the exterior diagrid would--it is hoped--still hug the upper floors tightly...