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...spread out all over the countryside. Public transport is still a tough sell in the U.S., but rail lines in most of the world have kept sprawl from being even worse than it is. Says Tony Burton, a member of the Council for the Protection of Rural England: "The dilemma is, if you don't build roads, what do you do? Well, for a start, you prevent sprawl." Curitiba, Brazil, is an up-and-coming city in which an efficient bus system has helped hold down road building...
...sponsors sent staff to the working groups, which ranged in size from five to 30 people each. The groups met regularly from the beginning of the year. A large e-mail collective allowed them to share ideas and dilemmas with fellow activists around the world. Tasks ranged from crucial fund raising to communicating with the "corporate media." Caravan tackled how to get affinity groups into town and use the trip to spread the Mobilization's message. Permitted Action organized the legal rallies (as opposed to civil disobedience-or direct action). Logistics faced the dilemma of finding as many...
...progestin may slightly lower the risk of heart attack among subjects with high levels of a form of cholesterol called lipoprotein-a. In women with normal or low levels of the cholesterol, however, the hormones seemed to raise the heart-attack risk. You should probably discuss this latest hormone dilemma with your doctor--and stand by for more conclusive data...
Something's got to give. It's disturbing how blithely some Americans have resolved the dilemma by dismissing, even denigrating the father--and even the role of fathers. If it had been Juan Miguel Gonzalez who had died in the Straits of Florida and the mother who waited back in Cuba, Elian would have been sent back to her immediately, on the premise that the mother-child bond trumps politics. It's natural. But the father...that's different. In the postfeminist tabloid subconscious of America, fathers are problematic figures with bad track records--a certain smudge of anger...
...first person to sell in a rout, when everybody comes to that conclusion, everybody loses. The vampire-blood exchange, described by biologist Gerald Wilkinson in 1983, caught the attention of economists because it represents a natural occurrence of the optimal solution to a problem called "the Prisoner's Dilemma" that has bedeviled game theorists for decades...