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...that was an era when the cool kids smoked Gauloises and argued about Kierkegaard and Trotsky. Today, as two recent reports have revealed, it's the girls who achieve and the boys who coast along on gut courses congenial to hangovers. Boys are less likely to go to college in the first place (only 45% of college students under 25 are male) and are less likely to graduate as well. If I tried to follow my original strategy now, I would probably end up with an M.A. in Madden, the football video game, and a postgraduate stay in rehab...
...What went wrong? Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee, says the response to the Java tsunami actually represented a success for the interim warning system?and in a sense, he's right. Just 17 minutes after the earthquake struck off the coast of Java, scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii crunched the seismological data and sent a bulletin to colleagues in Jakarta, warning of the possibility of a local tsunami for land within 100 km of the temblor's epicenter. In the 2004 tsunami, those simple lines of communication did not exist...
...text messages warning of the quake to about 400 Indonesian officials in disaster management, but there was little they could do: there were no alarm bells to ring on the beach, no emergency broadcasts to transmit over the radio or TV, no way to warn the people on the coast. The Ministry of Research and Technology, which heads the development of Indonesia's tsunami-warning system, came under criticism for failing to raise a clear alert, but officials point out correctly that the interim system is still far from complete. And because the quake occurred so close to shore, even...
...Pariatmono says that same "non-destructive" warning was on the PTWC website three hours after the magnitude 7.7 undersea quake erupted in the Indian ocean off the coast of Java, Indonesia's most-densely populated island. He points out also that the nationwide system is still three years from completion and is currently functioning only in Sumatra. "Even in Sumatra, the only place that is really prepared is in Padang," he says,referring to the capital of West Sumatra, where drills have been carried out and a program put in place. "The rest of the country is still very vulnerable...
...Blowing the Whistle on YouTube The latest hot homemade video claims that Coast Guard patrol boat security cameras have blind spots. But in the YouTube age, viewers should be wary of their...