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...guys are and have stationed interceptor systems in each of their immediate neighborhoods in order to make it work. More important, the Pentagon will argue, the system mooted by Putin can't be built quickly enough - it would take 10 years rather than the five envisaged by Washington to cope with the emergence of a potential North Korean threat." Then again, Putin's primary objective may be to outflank Washington's efforts to build an umbrella system Russia fears may eventually neutralize its own nuclear deterrent, thereby destabilizing the nuclear balance - a prospect that has Western Europe scared that Washington...
...teachers, whatever their age or background, often have to cope with lack of support from administrators or parents, too many meetings, excessive bureaucracy and the nearly ubiquitous social ills--drugs, parental abuse or neglect--that harm children and hamper learning. Adjusting to the environment of a school and learning to balance all the demands, says Long Beach teacher Cutler, can take three-to-five years. "You have to be prepared for that learning curve...
...Weather, for example, a middle-aged couple must cope with the aftereffects of a strike by the National Association of Meteorologists. Not only have forecasts ceased, but so, in a sense, has the weather itself, leaving them, as the wife notes, "stuck in a bland width of grayness with day after day of neither heat nor cold." In Windows another couple, both painters, decide to board up their house, depriving themselves of indoor access to natural light, to protest the government's new window tax. Reportage offers a breezily journalistic account of how local residents react when a Roman arena...
...months ago--after wrapping the gross-out comedy Road Trip--Green, 28, was found to have cancer and underwent back-to-back surgical procedures to remove a diseased testicle and potentially damaged lymph nodes. Clearly it was no laughing matter. To help himself cope, he turned his ordeal into an MTV comedy special that will air May 23. "Basically," he says, "it shifted my attention away from feeling sorry for myself...
...this new set of powerful forces. I make most of my living giving live seminars and training programs and as a management consultant. It's all gravitating to the Web--gravitating, heck. It's moving at the speed of light. I am scrambling to reinvent myself, to not just "cope" but to exploit the new communication and connection media. Hey, there are young management gurus hot on my trail. Hot = Web speed...