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...from the 15 firehouses closest to São Paulo's main drags. Other cities employ moto-medics--London, Kuala Lumpur and Miami, among them--but in Brazil the program holds special significance since there is no centralized 911 and firefighters have become the go-to guys when accidents occur, perhaps because the country's health service is in disarray and the police are among the nation's least esteemed public servants. "People trust us," says fire department spokesman Lieut. Marcos Palumbo. "We always respond to emergencies." Quickly too. The day I follow them, the medics arrive at the scene...
...course, there is a possibility that students might declare a secondary field to game the system, using their status to get preference in a lottery and then dropping the secondary field after enrolling in the course. This is a valid concern, but one that will hopefully occur infrequently. The complicated process of filing for a secondary field should deter students from declaring a secondary field in which they are not actually interested...
...watch a videotape of his 16-year-old daughter killing her first polar bear, a rite of passage that is under threat as the melting ice reduces the bear population. For the Inuit, says Graff, "the idea that a warmer Arctic would be an easy place to live would occur only to someone from the South...
...someone needs to act the clown. There is something dishonest and contrived about this arrangement, to be sure. If students were naturally enthusiastic about the course material (and did the reading), they would have lively interchanges in spite of their personalities. Perhaps so, but if good discussion does not occur organically, the next best option is to induce it artificially. Charlie E. Riggs ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Quincy House...
...Chen has denied the referendum has anything to do with politics. The president also stridently insists the vote will occur no matter what the circumstances. That said, he has tried to temper U.S. resistance by making assurances to American officials that the naming controversy will go away after the elections. And Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Christensen on Sept. 11 followed up Negroponte's earlier comments by emphasizing the continuing friendship between the two entities. "We do not like having to express publicly our disagreement with the Chen Administration on this or any other policy," Christensen said...