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...this amorphous force is a hard sell in New Zealand, where water is abundant and lush pastoral land rolls on forever. Clark wants New Zealand, which produces 0.4% of the world's carbon emissions, to set the pace on emissions cuts, just as it was the first country to grant women the vote (1893) and the first Western-allied nation to legislate itself into nuclear-free status (1987). "New Zealand has got to be part of solving serious problems," Clark said on Oct. 14, "not just sitting on the sidelines." Most of the provisions of her government's Climate Change...
...Trojans, had multiple cases. And football is by no means the only sports victim. The infection kept Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Alex Rios out of the 2006 All-Star Game. A few days later another Toronto player caught it, and the clubhouse was disinfected. NBA players Paul Pierce, Grant Hill and Drew Gooden have had it. Staph killed a high school wrestler in California this summer, and last spring 15 students at a Pennsylvania high school were either treated for staph or symptoms caused by the virus...
...really seem fair, does it? And it isn't fair. But it's what happens when your country's economy is the world's biggest and - more important - your currency is the world's currency. "Imagine how any other country would receive the news that it had been granted the right to discharge its international obligations, as the United States does, in its very own currency, which only it can lawfully print," James Grant writes in the new issue of Foreign Affairs. "There would be dancing in the streets...
...research grant for semiconductors from the Army Research Office was coming up for renewal, and he needed to actually do some research related to semiconductors if he wanted to avoid getting himself in hot water...
Without a single mention of Joe the Plumber, four undergraduate residents of Quincy House took the stage in the House’s dining hall and fielded questions in a mock presidential debate last night. More than 40 people listened to Grant W. Dasher ’09, Matthew P. Cavedon ’11, Elizabeth B. Graber ’11, and Ari R. Hoffman ’10 answer questions posed to them by Eric B. Lomazoff, the Quincy House resident tutor in government. The debaters opened the evening with thanks to the moderator and the hosts...