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...While reading about the gulf coast hurricane disaster, I thought about 9/11. In both tragedies, failures of hyperbureaucratic structures resulted in the loss of lives. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, there were loads of information and hints about terrorist activities before the attack. It was the same with Katrina. Meteorologists knew at least 48 hours before the storm hit the Gulf Coast that an exceptional force of nature was aimed at New Orleans. Military and medical aid should have been set up in anticipation. I cannot believe that a civilized and highly developed, rich nation was unable to provide...
...great Renaissance men, Federico was a liberal humanist with diverse interests. He also happened to be the most accomplished military strategist in 15th century Europe, and he used his immense profits as a freelance killing machine to turn Urbino, his hometown in the Marche region on Italy's eastern coast, into the Greenwich Village of the Quattrocento, a place where architects, soldiers, intellectuals and painters could commune under the umbrella of his largesse...
...didn't go with a girl, I went with a guy for three years,' that's usually a game stopper," says Monsignor Steven Rohlfs, rector at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmetsburg, Md. But most in his position are more accepting. Plante reports that one West Coast diocese responded to rumors of Rome's new hard line by asking him to keep homosexual designation out of his final reports, for fear it would hurt gay priests' careers down the line...
Throughout European history, cod has been a staple food. But cod populations have plummeted. The worldwide catch has declined from 3.1 million tons in 1970 to around 800,000 tons today. The fishery collapsed off the east coast of Canada, and fishing there was banned in 1992; the North Sea cod take is now down 75% from 15 years ago. Farming cod, says Viguie, "was a no-brainer, really--you have a fish which is endangered that is also a big part of many nation's diets...
...subscribe to the view that aging suddenly overtakes us at some point in life, whether at 60 or some other milestone. I meet researchers, physicians and others who believe that we are born, grow rapidly to maturity, and then coast along on a more or less comfortable plateau until we begin to decline. They call the period of decline senescence and consider it distinct and apart from what came before...