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TIME:You talk about a confidence gap between men and women that begins very young. In the book you write of berating yourself for not pushing President Clinton strongly enough to make a statement following the disaster in Waco, Texas. You quote Lois Wyse, who wrote, ?Men are taught to...
A Disaster Re-Examined It has been almost two decades since the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in which a tanker dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. Now after a lengthy legal battle over one of the most environmentally disastrous events in U.S. history...
This was not remotely the case during the darkest years of the Great Depression, 1931 and 1932. In those days, financial activity of all kinds--mortgage loans, IPOS, consumer lending, commercial lending--almost entirely ceased. The result was true disaster. The economy shrank 26% in three years. Unemployment hit 25...
Anger Management As negotiations have dragged on, the refugees are growing increasingly militant. In one corner of the market camp, villagers have stockpiled sharpened bamboo stakes - a defense against possible forced eviction. The villagers have also directed their anger at local officials regarded as allies of the company. At one...
Critics say the government's own response to the disaster has been muddy at best. "The government is not serious in its handling of the disposal of the mud or settling the social problems caused by the disaster," says Sonny Keraf, Indonesia's former Environment Minister and head of a...