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...larger picture. The Committee on General Education proposes to replace the Core Program with a curriculum at once broad and deep, opening up the entire Courses of Instruction for the general education of our students, empowering Departments to craft curricula for broader audiences, while summoning the Faculty to mount a new set of foundational courses to serve as 'portals' to large and important areas of knowledge...
...Elbegdorj said that his Democratic Party would mount “constructive opposition...
...were asking tough questions about their own risk. So what lessons can they draw from the Turkish experience? YOU'VE GOT TO MOBILIZE ASAP If you wait until people get sick, it can already be too late. Last week, teams of Turkish health workers in battered vans began to mount a nationwide chicken hunt, going house-to-house in white biohazard gear to search out sick birds. But in another snowy village outside Van, the Karatay family was still waiting for its fowl to be collected, a week after reporting the deaths of two chickens. "I do not understand...
...they also took immediate steps to protect themselves. Some tightened border controls and increased surveillance. But it is unclear whether next-door states like Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Iraq have the knowledge or resources to do enough. It is far easier for the wealthy nations of the E.U. to mount a strong defense. Bans on Turkish poultry products remained in place throughout the E.U., and member nations pledged to spend $100 million to fight off the global spread of bird flu, focusing on the most needy countries. In the U.K., businesses have been urged by the government to develop contingency...
...These days, Basra is practically run by Shi'ite militias, with the British only intervening when their own soldiers get into trouble - as they did last fall, when two soldiers were "arrested" by militiamen, requiring the British to mount a rescue operation. I have not been to Basra for some time, but friends there routinely report instances of British soldiers behaving in a hostile manner, even with those once-friendly tea vendors...