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...hydrogen power went nowhere then, just as it went nowhere when it was trumpeted nearly a century ago. It will probably go nowhere today, for many reasons, most notably a chronic case of short attention span among American politicians when it comes to energy policy. With great fanfare, lawmakers and Presidents--both Democrats and Republicans--announce sweeping plans to end or ease American dependence on foreign oil and find other stable sources of energy. When the headlines and television sound bites fade away, however, they scrap the programs, which then are often reintroduced to an unsuspecting public...
...bombings that helped propel him into office in the first place. "Bombings and elections go together in Moscow," noted an editorial in the English-language Moscow Times. "At the Kremlin they believe that Russians will learn to live with these bombings, like the Soviets once learned to live with chronic food shortages," says the senior federal government official. Putin lumps the Chechens in with al-Qaeda, calling them "the most dangerous part of the international terrorist network." But Shchekochikhin had a different analysis. "All Putin's talk of international terrorism in Chechnya is wildly off the mark," he said last...
...little authority or motive to intervene. But without some outside help, there is almost no hope of anything dislodging kidnapping as the state's most popular career choice. Though Bihar is India's third-largest state, it has attracted no investment or industry to speak of, and unemployment is chronic. Meanwhile, those Biharis who still have jobs are often paralyzed by insecurity: across the state, fear of kidnapping has emptied schools of teachers, fields of laborers and hospitals of doctors. Purnendu Ojha, a pediatric surgeon who was the first of 15 doctors from the state capital Patna to be kidnapped...
...attempt to remediate at least some of these chronic problems—and especially to shrink its budget deficit and to close the achievement gap—in the spring of 2002, the school district decided to consolidate or close several of the city’s 15 elementary schools...
...Harvard, in myriad other ways—from physical details like the University’s portraits (See “Men Rule These Walls,” page 5) to chronic, national problems like the paucity of women in the sciences (See “See No Evil,” page 16)—the culture of the University is often old, male and slow to change...