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...relationships among the people who will matter most. As we learned after Hurricane Katrina, the only thing more destructive than storm surges are distrustful, territorial and paranoid bureaucrats. "The last thing you want to see at the scene of a disaster are people exchanging business cards," one emergency preparedness expert once told me. And this particular simulation is unique in that, unlike the hundreds of drills that happen all year round, it involves senior officials (hence the name, TOPOFF, which is short for "Top Officials.") Elected politicians from the city, state and federal level will have to talk...
...particularly egregious act of art criticism (or, more likely, drunken vandalism), someone broke into Paris' Musée d'Orsay Oct. 7 and punched a hole in Claude Monet's Le pont d'Argenteuil. Here's how one expert recommends fixing the 4-in. (10 cm) tear...
...campus and in the campus vicinity rose slightly from 2005 to 2006. “Our violent crime statistics have remained fairly consistent and our property crime has dramatically decreased over the last several years,†Catalano said. According to Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson, an expert on community crime, Harvard might be a unique case among American colleges when it comes to crime. “Harvard is a major tourist destination and every day, thousands of visitors descend upon campus,†said Sampson. “What that means is that there...
...Some have said that restrictions imposed by the Bush Administration have hampered international HIV/AIDS relief efforts. Do you feel any policy changes need to be made? -Michael Ehmann, Stony Brook, n.y.I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing. There are lots of ways to help. The back of my book gives kids ideas on how to get involved in our global community...
...Ultimately, Gone Baby Gone is about choices and the consequences of those choices, and that's a subject Affleck is something of an expert in. "I always believed it's what you don't choose that makes you who you are," says Kenzie in another line not in the novel. He's talking about the mean streets the movie's characters inhabit, but Affleck acknowledges it has a more personal mean ing. "I think that's true for me like it is for anybody," he says. "To me the movie's about realizing that becoming an adult is about understanding...