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This sort of change may seem somewhat drastic at first. After all, we would be asking people to give up some of their academic pursuits to act as senior tutors. Yet, is it any more difficult for a faculty member to do the job than a graduate student, who is presumably at work on a thesis...
Simons said student use of Safety Walk has diminished over the past few years, a fact which led to drastic budget cuts for the program this year...
...wrong within, in this case, the Asian race or the Caucasian race. What should be examined more closely are the reasons why half-Asian students do not feel welcomed in the already existing Asian clubs or with the Caucasian community and feel it necessary to take such a drastic measure such as forming a separate club for their needs...
Unless the world takes immediate and drastic steps to reduce the emissions of heat-trapping gases, says the panel, the so-called greenhouse effect could drive global temperatures up as much as 6 degrees F by the year 2100--an increase in heat comparable to the warming that ended the last Ice Age and with perhaps equally profound effects on climate. Huge swaths of densely populated land could be inundated by rising seas. Entire ecosystems could vanish as rainfall and temperature patterns shift. Droughts, floods and storms could become more severe. Says Michael Oppenheimer, a senior scientist with the Environmental...
...cuts argue, with some passion, that under Congress's new balanced-budget dispensation, all of government must become smaller, and Native Americans must sacrifice like other Americans. Says Senator Gorton, who as chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee overseeing Interior Department funding wrote some of the most drastic legislation: "To give more to the BIA would, bluntly, have required us to give less to the national parks and cultural institutions which are our national heritage for everyone." This he refuses...