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This morning, the NCAA convention opens in Nashville. It’s the beginning of the end of a long fight by officials at three ECAC Division I hockey schools (Clarkson, Rensselaer and St. Lawrence) and WCHA power Colorado College to maintain Division I men’s hockey scholarships while keeping an overall Division III profile...
...international organization believes it should appear with its counterparts at the national, rather than the local, level. Yet the ill will engendered among local Guangdong officials might make them less eager to collaborate with the WHO the next time a possible case appears. The importance of maintaining this relationship in Guangdong goes beyond SARS to include other agents that might cross the species barrier?possibly avian influenza or some other novel zoonotic disease. Local officials and the WHO have to maintain a warm dialogue. The world's health depends...
...protection—the CCSR did not follow the Advisory Committee’s recommendation and abstained. The Ceres Principles are a worthy code of conduct for corporations. Companies that follow the Principles must report annually on their environmental performance, information that is essential for policy makers to better maintain our global climate. Voting for one company to adopt the Ceres Principles is admittedly a small step, but it is one that the CCSR—which, in a letter explaining a similar abstention last spring, told Plum Creek Timber that it agreed with the “underlying goals?...
...tech sector, for example, agriculture still accounts for nearly a quarter of GDP, and the country's predominantly agrarian population remains at the mercy of the monsoon. In 2002, the rains were poor, and India's agriculture suffered; the economy grew only 4.3%. India's economic planners maintain that the economy is less dependent on the monsoon now and that mediocre growth is a thing of the past; the nation's Planning Commission projects that annual GDP growth will average 8% from 2002 to 2007. Yet foreign observers like the World Bank believe India can step up its growth only...
...told by conscription advocates about the AVF is that it is an underclass military. Overrepresentation of blacks is modest; Hispanics are actually underrepresented. While there may be few sons and daughters of Wall Street in uniform, the military is an overwhelmingly middle-class force. The most obvious reason to maintain the AVF is practical: it's the best way to raise the world's finest military. What sets American society apart from totalitarian hellholes like Saddam Hussein's Iraq is its dedication to individual liberty. Conscription sacrifices the very values we are supposed to be defending...