Word: disruptionism
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"Once the virus has spread beyond its initial focus, travel restrictions just aren't effective," says Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Washington. With 4,000 flights a day between the U.S. and Mexico, "it's not worth the social disruption it would cause."
Texas Governor Rick Perry says any talk of closing the border is "premature." Meanwhile, Perry has declared a state of emergency and called on the Federal Government for support - an irony, his opponents say, given his recent comments about secession. But Perry, cognizant of the economic importance of the border...
A dispute during an externally-sponsored event on the prospects for Chinese democracy caused the Harvard University Police Department to remove audience member Wei Chaoyong, a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, from the Fong Auditorium yesterday evening. The event featured Szeto Wah, a prominent Chinese dissident and the...
The most important reason for the government to expend this great effort on GM and Chrysler is that the car business is such a large employer. There is no longer a case to be made that the auto manufacturing business is "strategic". If the auto industry was ever in a...
It's difficult to say for sure if this week's events are part of a sustained dissident campaign of civic disruption or simply acts of sporadic, copycat violence. Either way, the individuals behind this new threat to Northern Ireland's increasingly fragile peace have clearly studied their history books...