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Fire fighters, police and ocean safety officials were going from hotel to hotel to brief tourists of what to do. Keep away from the shore. And evacuate vertically - that is, to higher floors - if the word is given to do so. Public address systems repeated this information constantly on the streets of Waikiki as well as in all hotels in the area. (See the recovery from the great Indian Ocean tsunami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Chile's Quake, Hawaii Braces for Tsunami | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...That is classic Jody Freeman,” Lazarus said. “While the economy was cratering, while there’s a war in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Freeman was able to make the biggest push in higher emissions standards this country has ever seen...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Energy Expert Returns to HLS | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

Lazarus added that he would not be surprised if Freeman was asked to serve in a higher role in the president’s administration—perhaps as Administrator of the EPA or as Chairmen of the Counsel on Environmental Policy if Obama serves a second term...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Energy Expert Returns to HLS | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

Though teachers with advanced degrees tend to have higher salaries, these advanced qualifications were found to have little bearing on teacher effectiveness...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study Looks at Indicators of Teacher Effectiveness | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...Sacramento ever since. It also requires a two-thirds vote to raise taxes, granting antitax Republicans, a minority in the state ;egislature, great power. Proposition 98 requires California to spend 40% of the state budget on public schools, which places enormous pressure on other state programs, such as higher education and the courts. These and numerous others have put California government in something of an ever tightening straitjacket. (Read "California's Fiscal Crisis: The Legacy of Proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Initiative Culture Broke California | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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