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Councillors also argued that calling for the state to monitor the city would impinge on the council's powers...
Members of the undergraduate Committee on University Practices (COUP) have teamed up with the Ralph Nader-sponsored group Harvard Watch to monitor the selection process and press administrators to address student concerns, said COUP member Katherine J. Plummer...
Since 1968 scientists have been monitoring huge detectors for signs of these fleeting visitors from the sun. But so far, the results have been both disappointing and intriguing: the experiments have detected far fewer neutrinos than solar models predicted. Scientists were especially baffled by a recent report from a Soviet-American research team that set up a detector to monitor neutrinos emitted by the fusion of hydrogen atoms, the sun's main reaction. After four months of operation near the Soviet town of Baksan, the experiment has yet to turn up a single solar neutrino...
...Chubb and Moe suddenly transform themselves into radical deconstructionists. They theorize that "excessive bureaucratization and centralization are no historical accident . . . They are inevitable consequences of America's institutions of democratic control." The more political pressure is exerted to improve the schools, they argue, the more bureaucracy is created to monitor the new reform nostrums. In their view, only a choice system that frees the schools from political pressures entirely -- and introduces the competition of the marketplace -- can make a lasting difference...
...only an honor system enforces the sanctions. After 30 days, the U.N. will determine whether violations have occurred. If they have, the U.S. will press for a U.N.-sponsored naval blockade of Iraq. Ships in nearby waters could -- with considerable accuracy -- monitor incoming and outgoing vessels to ensure that no blacklisted oil got out. In effect, President Bush has already put such a blockade into position, warning Saddam, "I would advise Iraqi ships not to go out with...