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The three girls continue to debate the first-year experience. Subjects range from musical uses of rape whistles to arts and crafts with dental dams and floss—probably not what the Freshman Dean’s Office had in mind for the safety kit. The conversational flow is...
The P.L.A.'s new doctrine came together in 1999, say military analysts. It still carries its old name, "Active Defense," but the stress has moved to the first word. Especially worrying to Washington is the movement "toward the goal of surprise, deception and shock effect in the opening phase of...
Durango-which means "well-watered place"-embodies all the perplexities of water management in the West. Any water that is allowed to run downstream is wasted water. Any water that can be held captive behind the thousands of dams built under the 1902 Reclamation Act is good water. Today the...
Other governors are proving to be even more radical. They are the Japan that can say no. Governor Shiro Asano of Miyagi prefecture broke a taboo in December 2000 when he allowed public access to police records as a means to make government more transparent. Governor Masayasu Kitagawa of Mie...
Clean energy has a long way to go. Only 2.2% of the world's energy comes from "new" renewables such as small hydroelectric dams, wind, solar and geothermal. (Traditional renewable energy from large dams provides another 2.2%.) How to boost that share--and at what pace--is debated in industrialized...