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...fueled blazes sweeping the island nation. It certainly looks that way as sections of ice the size of small states calve from the disintegrating Arctic and Antarctic. And it certainly looks that way as the sodden wreckage of New Orleans continues to molder, while the waters of the Atlantic gather themselves for a new hurricane season just two months away. Disasters have always been with us and surely always will be. But when they hit this hard and come this fast--when the emergency becomes commonplace--something has gone grievously wrong. That something is global warming...
...Kozulin: Lukashenko's lost his nerve. Tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, is a major national holiday, albeit unrecognized officially - the anniversary of the Belarus People's Republic, our independent state, proclaimed back in 1918 and destroyed several months later. Lots of people always gather to mark this day. Now, the anniversary coincided with mass election fraud protests. The opposition has called upon the people to come to the square en masse to protest. The authorities were scared that this "pathetic tent camp" worked as a toehold for the dozens of thousands who would show up tomorrow - and turn Minsk into...
...could offer one piece of advice to the class of 2010, it would be this: take your science and math classes early. The longer your TI-86 is left to gather dust in your bottom desk drawer, the more difficult those problem sets and midterms will be. Oh, and don’t be fooled by the Cores with cushy-sounding names...
...Chinese? You don’t look Chinese,’” said Frommer.She added, though, that she felt her presence contributed to the Chinese Student Association’s mission.“I think the point of the organization is not only to gather people together that are of the same background, but to educate [other] people about the culture,” she said.—The next story of the series will consider the complexity of interracial dating at Harvard.—Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...says. "That still means that 95% of people who get the flu have two weeks of hell and then they get better. And when they get better, long before the government makes a vaccine, they?ll be immune." We should then figure out how to gather these immunized folks, Sandman says, into volunteer groups to do the jobs?like food and water deliveries - that might be needed as the pandemic progresses...