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...Enoch,” Brand said. “This year, he doubled his efforts. Considering it’s his senior year, where he’s starting to go into the next phase of his life, the fact that he was able to work hard and really commit himself this year is impressive.”The men’s two additional fencers, senior saber Dan Sachs and sophomore foil Kai Itameri-Kinter, both placed 15th individually.The Crimson women also boasted some strong finishes in the form of four All-Americans.The female epee fencers, so instrumental...
...Parliament wants to raise the North Sea standard to a 1-in-100,000-years level of protection," says Pier Vellinga, a senior government adviser and professor at Wageningen University and Research Center. Vellinga calculates that to maintain this higher level of protection, the Netherlands would have to commit about 0.2% of its GDP annually--some $1.3 billion. The Dutch are straightforward about making adaptation to global warming a high priority. The alternative is the prospect of losing its coastal cities altogether. ("We Are Here to Stay" is the accompanying public slogan.) "We want foreign visitors and investment to keep...
...federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), which reviews the plans of University researchers who hope to study human subjects, required her to read a script to her interview subjects that warned that she would inform the authorities if they told her of any specific plans to commit violence...
Cassandra's solution is a bill that would provide baby boomers with financial incentives to commit suicide--or "Voluntary Transitioning"--once they hit 70. Granted, the fiscally responsible management of Social Security isn't the stuff of which pulse-pounding plots are fabricated. But there's something good-naturedly world-weary--with a whiff of Waugh and Wolfe--in the way Buckley spins his wonky premise into a story about how the absurdities of Washington demand even greater absurdities in response. And Buckley (who, for the record, is 54) has an endless facility for mimicking the glossy rhetoric of political...
...Historic promises have been made on aid, debt and even the thorny subject of trade. Aggressive progress on these, matched by advances in fighting the evils of corruption in Africa, could transform the continent and prevent the fire from spreading. As a group, the E.U. countries have promised to commit 0.7 percent of GDP to the poorest of the poor. How Europe works to keep that promise is as important to Europe as it is to Africa...