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...study also highlighted the larger proportion of minority families in need of evacuation help that do not have their evacuation arrangements made. Only 3 percent of white residents who need help don’t have their plans made, compared to 17 percent of African-Americans and 10 percent of Latino-Americans...
...Australia trial couldn't happen in a place that needs it more. Queensland's government has budgeted $7.6 million in public money into the four-year, multipartner experiment, part of a larger initiative to fight the crushing drought, including a desalination plant and a controversial program to recycle waste into drinking water. "We're in uncharted territory as far as rainfall goes," says Craig Wallace, the state's Natural Resources and Water Minister, who acknowledges that committing to cloud seeding - which still has its naysayers in the scientific community - may raise some eyebrows. "You'll always get skeptics...
...resolution means humanitarian aid workers will be safer, and so will the 1.8 million displaced people living in camps in Sudan. But to impose peace on all of Darfur would require a force several times larger, and with a mandate to attack militias and confiscate guns. The war has mutated. It began as a rebellion by two local movements; the government responded by arming Arab-speaking militias who attacked civilian communities of the same ethnicity as the rebels. Today the rebel movements and the militias have splintered, and more than 20 gangs range across the harsh terrain seeking loot...
Hafler acknowledges that these findings are only the first step. Uncovering additional genes will require analyzing an even larger pool of MS patients and their families - Hafler is hoping to find at least 9,000 more patients. He calculates that with that much DNA, he'll be able to tease out 90% of the genetic culprits involved in MS. "These first genes give us a working hypothesis for what may be causing MS," says Hafler, "and a lot more work needs to be done. But we have finally begun...
...Harvard has a lot of property that is closer to construction and further from residential areas—can we encourage you to take advantage of that...and possibly the construction site itself, which is much larger than the outline of the building?” he asked...