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...Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling include Frances G. Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council; Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Terry D. Garcia, excutive vice president for mission programs for the National Geographic Society; and Frances Ulmer, chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage...
Suddenly the choreography turns into sauve qui peut: Airlines are in absolute disarray, expense accounts bill thousand-euro Eurostar tickets, the German chancellor buses from Rome back home, and, at the ever-so-fancy Dorchester Hotel tea promenade in London, one can be offered a private jet seat back to New York for only 10 thousand euros...
...Until now, Chancellor Angela Merkel's new center-right government has steered clear of calling the Afghan mission a "war," given the German public's deep loathing of the concept. But this started to change in February when the government came up with a new way of describing its mission, saying German troops were now engaged in a "non-international armed conflict." Then came zu Guttenberg's admission that the 4,300 German soldiers currently on the ground are actually engaged in what the rest of the world generally considers a war. "In the past, the Afghan mission was sold...
...armored vehicles until after they arrive in Afghanistan," he said. Germany's Armed Forces Association has also complained about the shortage of military helicopters and vehicles in Afghanistan, saying that German troops often have to rely on U.S. helicopter support in Kunduz. (Read "Much Work Ahead for German Chancellor Merkel...
...When Fryer briefed Rhee, the Washington schools chancellor, about the results, she was shocked - happily so. "It is just so hard to show impact in education," Rhee says, citing past experiments that showed no payoff despite enormous effort. "We don't see results like this for a lot of other things we're doing," she says. So she went to the Washington city council to ask for more money to keep paying kids - and to keep studying what happens. "If next year's data show something different, so be it," Rhee says. "We'll take it year by year...