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...says Bob van Meter, chair of the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation (CDC), who helps run monthly meetings between Harvard officials and community members. “Residents want to ensure that growth allows the community to maintain its vitality, and at the same time, not to be overrun...
Leading the antismoking campaign at U.N.H. is Marc Hiller, a professor of health management and policy and the school's self-proclaimed clean-air czar. Sitting in an office overrun by public-health tomes and tobacco-research manuals, Hiller, 52, articulates a campus no-smoking initiative with the same kind of fervor that President Bush reserves for declarations about Saddam Hussein...
Other U.S. states along the Mexican border are studying California's experience. Proponents in Arizona and Texas are hoping cross-border insurance might help reduce the strain on their public-health systems, overrun by patients who--lacking health insurance--wait until they are so sick, they wind up in the emergency room. "Our hospitals are under siege right now," says Marisa Walker, director of the Arizona-Mexico Program at the University of Arizona, who has been studying ways to develop cross-border health care in a state that has as many as 750,000 uninsured. "We definitely need...
Pakistan was saying to India, You have a much stronger army. You could probably launch a war and overrun not just Kashmir but much of Pakistan as well. That is why we built our nuclear arsenal. Of course, we do not want to use it. But if you overrun us, we just might strike first. Think about...
During the cold war, the U.S. also threatened first use of nuclear weapons. The Soviets fielded a huge conventional army that could have overrun Western Europe. The U.S. response was not to match the Soviets with countless tank divisions but to threaten nuclear retaliation against a conventional attack...