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...First, we want to save lives. If there's an evacuation needed, a civil authority will call it, but we want to give them the best information so that people can be moved out of harm's way. The other category is minimizing economic and social disruption during the period of unrest surrounding an eruption. If you've got volcano unrest and you don't know the extent of the eruption, you really tend to overreact when you don't need to. We can also give practical information - telling people about ash flow or when a mudflow is coming down...
...BLGTSA-open e-mail list exploded with passionate responses after a message Tuesday afternoon announcing the proposed renaming to the “College Queer Students and Allies.” Over 50 e-mails were sent during a single 24-hour period. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...used the excuse, “I already had a huge lunch,” to get out of a meal; if you’ve made arbitrary food rules (no meat from now on, a glass of water before for every meal); if you eat uncontrollably during reading period, then this column is for you, too. Still don’t see yourself yet? Hold on. If you’ve heard the euphemism, “He’s weird about food” or “She’s disappeared...
After the bursting of Japan’s asset bubble in the late 1980s, its economy showed little growth in a period known as the “Lost Decade.” Over the following years, Japan injected capital into banks that were likely to be insolvent so that they could stay open without dealing with the reality of their liabilities. This story sounds grimly similar to the Troubled Assets Relief Program, by which the Treasury handed $700 billion to the nation’s banks with little positive result. The consequences of the Japanese—and hence...
...steadily softened its ambition during its 30-year existence, and that's not such a bad thing. Early on, Bono sang with a moral force that suggested Cotton Mather with a mullet; not satisfied to rock you on "Sunday Bloody Sunday," he needed to convert you. In the towering period that spanned The Joshua Tree to Zooropa, U2 made stadium-size art rock with huge melodies that allowed Bono to throw his arms around the world while bending its ear about social justice. After 1997's Pop - a disastrous mix of disco and hubris that provided a harrowing glimpse...