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...Those centers, which rapidly interpret earthquake data sent in by seismic observatories around the world, detected last week's Java tsunami. But due to gaps in the way a tsunami alert is broadcast to the public, no warnings reached the people on the Javanese beaches?underscoring just how difficult it still is to protect the most vulnerable countries from killer tidal waves. "Let's not kid ourselves and think we solved the warning problem because we can detect a tsunami and say, 'It's coming,'" says Laura Kong, head of the International Tsunami Information Center in Honolulu. "We have...
...Hooray for Krauthammer! I grew up with a mother who didn't speak English. Bilingual government services allow parents to avoid learning it. But it is devastating when children are forced to be the family's interpreters. Try having to miss class because you have to interpret for your mother at her gynecologist's. Let's be practical and make it really hard to function in our society without knowing the language. Marcia Del Mar Calabasas, California...
...have meant that, at any given moment, people here are either moving or feasting. When Parisians aren’t walking, they are sitting on street-side cafés and watching people walk. When a Parisian might by chance decide to take the Métro, do not interpret this as a lazier action: he or she will still have to walk about one kilometer to change trains at Châtelet. After buying a more comfortable pair of walking shoes and giving up the morning jogs, I began to enjoy the taste of a walking culture. I couldn?...
Ogletree began his testimony by saying that the signing statements are often helpful “to clarify and address matters of constitutional significance,” and that they promote “transparency by signaling how the president plans to enforce or interpret the law.” Other presidents have employed the statements, he noted, “without much objection or controversy...
...ancient hierophants sharing a hushed secret. In such works, writes Dalmia, "the contemporary [is] elevated to the level of the classical." In a tragically brief career, Sher-Gil did much to introduce her country to the idea of the free-spirited artist, and to show them that art could interpret Indian life for Indians. As Dalmia puts it: "She introduced the modern into India...