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...Kennan, appointed by Marshall to head the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in drafting the initiative, hoped that the Plan would be the first step toward a politically unified continental Europe. He envisioned French leadership of a continental federation, with a reunited and disarmed Germany serving as a buffer between East and West. Britain would join with Canada and the U.S. in an allied but separate political coalition. Eastern European states would be wooed into the neutral continental center, so the tripolar division would stabilize the international system and serve as a buffer in any East-West confrontation...
...Mexico City took a critical step: it officially declared the butterfly's winter domains "ecological preserves." The proclamation prohibits logging and agricultural development within an area of 11,000 acres around the monarch retreats and restricts development in buffer zones that encompass another 28,000 acres. In addition, the Ministry of Ecology bought about 2,000 acres of land where the insects actually cluster...
Even among the leaders of the computer equal-rights movement, however, some old assumptions die hard. In Deborah Brecher's Women's Computer Literacy Handbook, a book-length version of the San Francisco course, computer programs are likened to cookbook recipes, data flows from a buffer like water from a bathtub, and bits and bytes are pictured as shoe boxes full of tiny babies who sit to represent the binary digit 0 and stand to represent the digit...
...believe that she has made a real difference in helping Harvard and the Cambridge community understand each other better. Although I told your reporter all these things in a long interview, the only comment attributed to me was a frustration that Jackie is not a decision-maker, but a buffer for the real decision-makers in the University administration. I did say that, but in the context of my realizing that Jackie is not always to blame for some Harvard decisions with which I disagree...
...overcrowding, but of underplanning. The perennial explanation for overcrowding in the houses is that University officials had no way of predicting the numbers of students that would elect to take or to return from leaves of absence. More housing will not resolve this uncertainty, though an adequate buffer of extra rooms will help...