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...Japanese riot police were mobilized to safeguard the torch along its 18.7 km (11.6 mi) route in the city of Nagano - the host of the 1998 Winter Olympics. The show of force kept most protesters in line. Compared with those of some previous host cities, Nagano authorities managed to maintain relative calm, but the cacophony of slogans shouted by pro-China or pro-Tibet demonstrators, Japanese nationalists and human rights organizations flooded air already full of the colors of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese flags. "Clearly, the mix of demonstrators shows that Japan is a peaceful nation after all," said Shinjyo...
...like wind and solar power. Gasification plants are not only damaging to the planet today; future attempts to decrease their impact are neither environmentally nor financially viable.In the end, the six conference committee members currently reviewing Massachusetts’s energy bill are faced with three possibilities. Should they maintain incentives for gasification, they can limit emissions to natural gas levels, thereby compromising the meaning of green energy. They could also require unconditional carbon sequestration, a provision hinted at in the Senate bill but unrealistic without much more time, research, and development. But there is a third, cheaper and more...
...year before. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) can expect a “pause” in faculty hiring during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, who recently proposed the measure. While University Hall’s desire to maintain a manageable faculty size in the face of administrative and programmatic changes is completely understandable, this hiring slow-down will ultimately disadvantage students who face gaping holes in their departments of choice. Harvard currently lacks sufficient tenured and tenure-track faculty to provide instruction in a number of fields—from...
Whereas Rowling's works maintain a certain English reserve, Meyer's books are full of gusting emotions. Bella never stops gasping and swooning and passing out and waking up screaming from nightmares. Her heart is always either pounding or stopping. (Bella's histrionics don't feel at all unrealistic. When you're writing about adolescents, melodrama and realism are the same thing.) Rowling labors over her intricate plots, but Meyer's stories never bend or twist or branch. They have one gear, and she guns it straight ahead till the last page. The way she manages the reader's curiosity...
...hidden the germ of their worst nightmare. That latter possibility has now arrived. There is no road map for where the Democrats are going; there aren't even many roads. The candidates and their aides have only a dim grasp of how the endgame will unfold, though some maintain a healthy sense of humor about their predicament. David Axelrod, Barack Obama's top strategist, donned a shirt on the plane out of Pennsylvania that read STOP THE DRAMA, VOTE OBAMA...