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...update. After a few phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl was in hiding, fearing reprisals. My editors in Manhattan assumed she'd want to "tell her story." But interviewing the girl again, I had to explain, could bring as much shame and danger as the circumcision knife...
Reading Earth's Danger Signs I appreciated Nancy Gibbs' column about several recent warnings delivered on the state of the environment [Sept.24]. Yet even with an awareness of the crisis, I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit. This may necessitate enormous changes within our society. Claudia Schaer, CALGARY...
...those materials, according to a report released Wednesday by the “Managing the Atom” project at the Kennedy School of Government. The report says that the essential ingredients needed to make nuclear weapons exist in over 40 countries and that terrorists are actively pursuing these dangerous materials. “The threat of nuclear terrorism is a continuing one,” said Matthew Bunn, author of the report and the project’s senior research associate. According to the report, some progress has been made in pursuing programs to guard and reduce the vulnerable...
...conclude that the summit's political effect may be just as nonexistent. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon gave what was by his mild-mannered standards an impassioned speech calling for rapid action on climate change, and world leader after world leader rose to the lectern to emphasize the danger of global warming. "Today, the time for doubt has passed," Ban said in his opening address. "The time for action...
...intent is obviously to prevent student groups from passing themselves off as official agents of the University. But was this ever a danger? This sort of minutiae is not only senseless nitpicking that falls apart outside the vacuum of common sense in a lawyer’s office, but it’s also a waste of Harvard’s time and money. The University reportedly spends $500,000 to a million dollars each year on weaseling out trademark violations. One would imagine there are better uses...