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Read on after the jump for more dire proclamations about journalism's future--or lack thereof...
College for many is about learning to live in a new environment and culture, and our current lack of snow days does an unsatisfactory job of introducing students from warmer climates the institution of the snow day. We expect students from Los Angeles, Florida, and other warm spots to take on the harshness of our winters yet do not allow them the benefit of cancellations that are pillars of elementary and high-school education in New England...
...lack of imminent death fueled much of the debate in the 2005 case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman in a vegetative state whose feeding tube was removed - causing eventual death - after a protracted legal and political battle. Schiavo's husband Michael said Terri would not have wanted to be kept alive, while her parents had argued her mental capacity could have improved with therapy. Acorss the Atlantic, Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman in a similar non-responsive state, died in February 2009 under circumstances that mirrored the Schiavo case. While "right-to-die" cases are different than "assisted suicide...
...come up with an effective answer? Its fudged response so far is partly down to a lack of institutional architecture: the European Central Bank, for example, has far fewer resources than the U.S. Federal Reserve, while the European Commission can only work with the budget provided by E.U. member states. At the same time, leaders like Sarkozy, Merkel and Brown have been too busy putting out fires at home to provide strong leadership out of the crisis...
...involvement of some top military officers, according to regional sources. In an interview with TIME in Bissau in 2007, a high-ranking West African military officer who asked not to be named said Guinea-Bissau's government and mlitary allowed drug traffickers to operate "not because of a lack of resources but a lack of political will...