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...Hurricane Andrew, which clawed its way across south Florida in 1992, causing $27 billion dollars worth of damage. More-frequent hurricanes are part of most global warming models, and as mean temperatures rise worldwide, it?s hard not to make a connection between the two. But hurricane-scale storms occur all over the world, and in some places-including the North Indian ocean and the region near Australia-the number has actually fallen. Even in the U.S., the period from 1991 to 1994 was a time of record hurricane quietude, with the dramatic exception of Andrew...
...political parties do not dispute that the visits occur. And a steady flow of weapons continues to arrive from Iran through the porous southern border. "They use the legal checkpoints to move personnel, and the weapons travel through the marshes and areas to our north," says a British officer in Basra. Top diplomats and intelligence officials know that some Iranian officers are providing assistance to Shi'ite insurgents, but it's dwarfed by the amount of money and matriel flowing in from Iraq's Arab neighbors to Sunni insurgents...
...many diplomatic options, including wider acceptance of treaties, improved security measures, increased monitoring, excess stockpile reduction, and better warhead accounting practices to reduce the spread of nuclear arms. These are far from a panacea, but widespread diplomatic acceptance of current treaties and the continuing negotiation of further treaties must occur...
...Bush recently signed a bill establishing a confidential and voluntary system for reporting medical errors. In addition to giving people less motivation to sue, supporters argue, fuller disclosure will help reduce malpractice in a more fundamental way by helping health-care professionals learn from mistakes so fewer preventable errors occur...
...timing is carefully coordinated to minimize the disruption of campus activities and to occur when the fewest students, faculty, and staff need to be in the buildings,” said Linda Snyder, an associate executive dean at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for physical resources and planning. “Of course, Harvard never shuts down, so we are careful to protect passersby and summer school students and staff...