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...generals imagined that foreign agents would be attacking anytime soon. But as the junta blocked foreign aid for cyclone victims and provided little relief of its own, some outside Burma considered a radical solution: a unilateral intervention to save Burma's beleaguered citizens. "I want to register my deep concern and immense frustration at the unacceptably slow response to this grave humanitarian crisis," said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner referred to the U.N.'s "responsibility to protect" and hinted that international action should be taken to ensure that relief reached those who needed...
Most Russians, however, stayed poor and felt disoriented, and Yeltsin's popularity dipped. His drunkenness harmed his cause. There was public disquiet about his frequent, lengthy absences from his office. His health caused further concern; if his cardiac condition had been public knowledge he would never have won the 1996 election. Nor would he have triumphed without getting the business oligarchs to bankroll his campaign. In return, they got their hands on oil, gas, nickel and aluminum, and grew even richer. Democracy had been one of his slogans before he came to power, and he continued to celebrate...
...specific concern filed by Wagner and Sancho is that according to some theories, the LHC, by fracturing atoms into smaller and smaller parts, may create one of three exotic yet dangerous possibilities. The first option is a strangelet, a small particle that makes other atoms strangelets until it “eventually [converts] all of Earth into a single larger ‘strangelet’ of huge size.” If you don’t like the prospect of being turned into exotic atomic material without your consent, then perhaps you should consider what?...
...This concern is shared by Eva Z. Lam ’10, the legislative director for the Harvard College Democrats...
That does not bode well for Sarkozy, who must get the reintroduced GMO bill passed before tabling sweeping institutional and constitutional reform, including changes to parliament itself, in June. Many conservatives have already expressed concern over such measures and are looking to the left as possible allies to turn them away. If that happens, Sarkozy may soon be hearing more parliamentary applause of the sort he'd prefer to avoid...