Word: massing
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...Harvard’s autocracy has got you down, feel free to leave. But if you take the T to MIT you’ll find another autocracy. And another if you head down the Mass Pike to New Haven. And if you take a plane over to Oxford, the birthplace of the university system, you won’t find anything more democratic there either. This—college education—is what autocracy looks like, and there’s nothing wrong with that...
...Congress was slow to recognize the great crimes perpetrated nearly a century ago, one would hardly blame them: the Armenian genocide was scarcely acknowledged for 50 years. Another one of history’s great criminals, Adolf Hitler, used the mass killing’s anonymity to justify his own violence towards the Poles in 1939, saying: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians...
...York Department of Health declined to say where the misconduct had occurred. This week, the Mass. Department of Public Health asked McLean Hospital to investigate whether any patients at the Belmont, Mass. institute were harmed...
...main concern is the health and safety of the patients in the facilities that we licensed,” said Donna E. Rheaume, a spokeswoman from the Mass. Department of Public Health...
Climate scientists are obsessed with finding tipping points, the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable. For environmentalists, 2007 is likely to be remembered as the tipping point when public understanding of the existential threat of climate change reached critical mass. If that's true, no one will deserve more credit than Al Gore, who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize today along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Gore spoke about the threat of the greenhouse effect as a Senator in the 1980s, when it was just emerging from the thicket...