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...enrichment activity would allow Iran to perfect its techniques, and also provide it with cover for procuring nuclear technology that could aid a bomb program.) Once it became clear that the U.S. wouldn't buy it, Moscow abandoned the plan: Russia's objective, after all, is to find a fix that averts a confrontation...
Unfortunately, the same approach-avoidance mentality that characterizes student-professor interaction often governs student group-faculty collaboration. With some notable exceptions, faculty advising of student groups often extends little further than signing a form once a year. There is no easy fix for this, but there are a number of ways the situation could be improved, principally by creating long-term mechanisms for student-faculty interaction that extend beyond individual students...
...they'd be enough to tip others into a state that would pass these days for clinical depression. Hamer says he's never felt down for long. "When trouble happened at work," he says, "I asked myself what part I played in causing it, then looked at how to fix...
...confiscated fields were used to build new schools or clean water projects. Instead, they complain, the money is often diverted by local officials. And few corruption investigations lead to sentencing, not least because officials tend to protect their own. Farmers who once trusted the central government's ability to fix problems find their faith in the system dimming and their anger rising. "They had been told that reform was coming, so they were patient," says Philip Brown, an economist who studies rural China and teaches at Colby College. "But now they see that the reforms don't go far enough...
...group within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers charged with making short-term repairs to the levee system by the start of storm season. To date, the Corps has signed nearly $400 million in repair contracts. All around town its crews can be seen working to restore levees, fix flood walls and install interim floodgates and bypass pumps. But for months the mantra around New Orleans has been that in the longer term, the city must have more--namely storm protection sufficient to resist a Category 5 storm. (Katrina was at most a Category 4 when it hit land...