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...telling that this watershed moment involved American employees of a private security contractor. Of all the changes in tactics that have made the war in Iraq distinct from prior U.S. engagements, perhaps no shift is as profound as the massive hiring--and varied deployment--of private contractors in combat zones. There are an estimated 100,000 contractors in Iraq, compared with a fraction of that the last time the U.S. was fighting there, and they are not working in just mess halls. They are bodyguards for vips, snipers in the field, translators and interrogators. They man checkpoints at Army bases...
Eating bison may have helped save the animals, but it does raise the danger that managed herds will become domesticated and lose their distinct bison-ness. Ranchers have a financial incentive to cull herd members who are cantankerous (as older bulls are), who break fences, who fight other bulls. But removing these animals is a form of unnatural selection: it will eventually remove wild traits from the bison gene pool, making them docile like cattle...
...built, but current plans for renovations and a new museum in Allston will seek to span the gaps in the University’s museums.Over the years, the University has always grappled with how to reconcile the split identities of its art collection, which now sits in three distinct museums: the Western-focused Fogg, the Central European Busch Reisinger, and the Ancient and Eastern Sackler. Now, HUAM hopes that the University’s expansion into Allston will finally provide it with the space necessary to increase the amount of art that it keeps on display and create a unified...
...Having spent time as both a theoretical physicist and an Anglican priest, John Polkinghorne attempts to straddle the two worlds of science and theology. His goal is not to defend religion or to place it in a hierarchy above science, but rather to show that theology and physics have distinct similarities in the methods they use and their ultimate aims.For Polkinghorne, the two are not conflicting ideologies; they are engaged in a parallel pursuit of the same goal: truth.Polkinghorne wisely limits the scope of his book, making it both more concrete and more readable. He does not attempt to address...
...times, it may seem difficult to gauge the effectiveness of a program aimed at increasing sustainability, a numerically immeasurable quantity. But though there are no distinct numbers to evaluate sustainability, REP does have some results to go by. Allison I. Rogers ’04, a former program coordinator, points to recycling and trash numbers as a measure of the program’s success. “If we were to go back to the baseline in 2001, the last year before it existed, we would see a huge difference in the number of energy consumption and trash...