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...With stakes this high, no agency, from the WHO to Harvard’s administration, wants to understate a hazard or withhold any information that could potentially save lives. And, after the intelligence failure surrounding 9/11, there is added pressure to ensure that every threat, no matter how obscure, is identified and contained...
...devils represent "popular expression and color" of individual ownership in a privatized transportation system. However, he continues, with time the bus system has fallen into the "vice" of concentrated ownership and inefficient service. Today, Leis says, the red devils represent "a form of hell" that pose more of a hazard than public service to the 800,000 low-income Panamanians who depend on them every day for a ride to work or school...
...some of the programs, especially those that paired local police with NATO mentoring teams, seemed quite promising. Indeed, right now Afghanistan is bristling with new ideas, and the slightest sliver of hope. It is, of course, easy to be deluded by a handful of pro-Western Afghans who hazard a visit to the U.S. embassy, but there is a quality of pride and independence to these people - a consequence of their never having been successfully colonized, I'd bet - that makes a good-faith effort to help them toward stability seem almost plausible ... if it weren't for the presence...
...exercise is absolutely critical in reducing obesity rates among youth in the United States. But removing combo meals from daily lunches is certainly a step in the right direction. Several surgeons general in the last century took an aggressive stance on smoking; obesity is a similar major public health hazard and thus deserves a similar treatment. Helping students opt for cafeteria salads over chicken nuggets is an excellent place to start...
...prepared to hazard the view that the post-Lehman meltdown is now over and the market is stabilizing" is how Ian Shepherdson of High-Frequency Economics greeted Wednesday's reported rise in new home sales. "That's not the same as a recovery, but it is better than continued declines in sales." (See which businesses are bucking the recession...