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...even if the myriad smaller coastal restoration projects are fully funded, it might not be enough. Bigger storms, experts insist, require bigger ideas. Geologist Sherwood Gagliano has spent a lifetime trying to figure out how to save his sinking state, and he has come up with what he thinks is the only plan ambitious enough to match the size of the problem. His idea: to redirect a branch of the Mississippi through the heart of Terrebonne Parish, the most densely populated in the delta. Shipping lanes would remain routed through New Orleans, but much of the Mississippi would be diverted...
Committee members insist that the report is still in a process of revision before it can be released to the full Faculty, but several said they are hopeful that a final report will be submitted soon...
...Ottoman Empire, even though they had pledged not to do that. People call us paranoid, but we're not." The mistrust is mutual. Since the E.U. officially invited Turkey to start talks last December, European misgivings have deepened. Last week, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel tried to insist on a last-minute change to the terms of the negotiations to allow for less than full E.U. membership. Much now hangs in the balance. Erdogan's political survival depends on talks going smoothly; if they fail or encounter unexpected resistance, nationalists will gain at his expense prior to elections...
...Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey appointed Andrews and his wife, Carolyn, as the masters of Leverett House, then the largest undergraduate house on campus. He was among the first House Masters to come from outside the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the first to insist that his wife be co-master, not the “master’s wife...
...Proponents of intelligent design insist that it is founded on science, because evolution can't fully explain some of the complexities of living things - the structure of the eye, for example - which they argue follow a conscious design. And while some critics maintain this argument is but a ploy to avoid the Supreme Court's ruling, advocates of ID avoid identifying who or what that designer might be. Could be Klingons, even...