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...Orleans still isn't safe" [Aug. 20]: When I moved to New Orleans as a young man in 1967, I viewed the city with fresh eyes. As I explored Canal Street, I saw three monstrous pipes on the edge of the road and heard the deep rumble from the pumping station. I recalled that New Orleans is 20 feet (6 meters) or so below sea level. As I looked up at the clear sunny sky, I realized that New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. If it took that amount of pumping on a sunny day to keep...
...years, only negative reports on farm diseases, monstrous murders, floods and landslides have been coming from our village...
...foreign eyes, it seems insensitive -- even criminally negligent--of Iraq's parliamentarians to take a four-week vacation while their country struggles with monstrous problems and their countrymen cope with the 110°F (43°C) heat. But to Iraqis, callous disregard is pretty much exactly what they have come to expect from their politicians. Some of the most prominent Iraqi politicians spend little time in the country, much less in parliament. Egregious absenteeism cuts across sectarian and ethnic lines: perennial no-shows include Shi'ite elder Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Sunni leader Saleh Mutlak and secular stalwarts Iyad Allawi and Adnan...
...explosion, the subject of a paper that will appear in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal, took place 240 million light-years away and was, in the words of astronomer Nathan Smith of the University of California, Berkeley, a leader of the observing team, "truly monstrous." About 100 times as powerful as an ordinary supernova, it resulted from the death of a star that was probably 150 times as massive as our sun, or "as massive as a star can get," says Smith. What's more, a similarly huge and unstable star is rumbling a lot closer to Earth...
...simulate events related to the Holocaust? That’s been one of the challenges for the students in Religion 1407, “Judaism and Christianity: A Conflictual History.” Professor Nicola F. Denzey aims to help her class understand “Why something as monstrous as anti-Semitism, particularly Christian anti-Semitism erupted around World War II,” she said. Denzey was quick to point out that the class is not doing a “Holocaust simulation,” but rather a simulation of the historical events that precipitated the Holocaust...