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...allowed to keep the historic agreements that assure it a minimum quantity of Nile water, which other countries question. "These issues could take many years," says Abdel Fattah Metawie, chairman of Egypt's Nile Water Sector, a department of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (his business card jokingly credits his ministry with being in operation "since 4241 B.C."), "but we will reach agreement, even if it takes many years. There is plenty of water. The problem is managing it." The grand vision of the NBI goes something like this: large dams along the Blue Nile in Ethiopia will...
...would welcome an exploration of men’s rowing becoming an NCAA sport if I could be assured…[t]hat for every men’s heavyweight event, there would be an equivalent men’s lightweight event,” Yale lightweight coach Andy Card wrote in an email. “[And] that the weigh-in requirements and rules for men’s lightweight rowing currently in effect in the EARC be adopted exactly without modification into an NCAA format...
...only the beginning. Harvard has a forest. We also have a glacier. Unlike most other glaciers, the Harvard Glacier is not receding but rather advancing, and is (of course) the largest glacier in the Alaskan “College Fjord.” When filling out your matriculation card, ask yourself, “Does this school have a glacier?” If not, you are filling out the wrong card. But there is so much right here on campus as well. Where else do the eateries remain unclosed until midnight? Where else can you relieve yourself by quite...
...much time showing that immigrants lower the wages of American workers, claims current immigration trends will produce “an astonishing transfer of wealth from the poorest people in the country…to the richest.” Borjas’ findings have been challenged by David Card, a Berkeley economist, who argues that immigration raises average wages by increasing the amount of availabe capital. He also claims that the least skilled workers—those who Borjas says are the hardest hit—suffer no loss of wages as a result of immigration. Card?...
...when he called on all Bush hands to declare now whether they want to leave or stay for the duration. This makes good sense; Bush has to calculate how to use what chits he has left to see which nominees through Senate confirmations hearings. It's worth noting that Card had done the same thing a month or so ago, a Card ally explains. The difference is this time the call is being heeded...