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...professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former oil-industry engineer, co-authored a landmark report for the National Science Foundation that analyzed why the Federal Government did such a poor job of protecting Louisiana before and after the storm. Most of the problems he identified persist, he says. And that is not Louisiana's problem alone, Bea emphasizes. The Army Corps of Engineers recently announced that 122 major levee systems are less than safe; those levees will face greater stresses with global warming. Extra-strong hurricanes will threaten cities along the entire Gulf and Atlantic coasts. New York...
...Despite claims by the International Cricket Council that it has eradicated match-fixing, suspicions persist that the practice continues. After Cronje died in a small plane crash in South Africa in 2002, some people saw the hand of South Asian organized crime at work. Former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz alleged to reporters earlier this week that one of South Asia's bookmaking mafia rings is probably behind Woolmer's murder. Sarfraz claims bookies were manipulating results, and that five members of the Pakistani squad were involved. The team's spokesman, Pervez Mir, angrily dismissed Sarfraz's allegations, telling...
...genre’s implicit message is that society’s background conditions can never be equal; underserved advantage (and disadvantage) will persist indefinitely. The only solution is taking control of one’s life. The upshot of this outlook is an attachment to earned wealth. Why else should 70 percent of Americans support the abolition of the estate tax (according to The Economist), when barely one in 100 pays...
...litigate) piracy before, and it should not lean against campus administrators to take up the helm of prosecution on this count. While it is regrettable that piracy threatens the livelihood of musicians around the world, the RIAA has adopted the wrong response strategy to this phenomenon. Litigation may persist, but the problem of lost revenues will never be relieved by virtue of such an approach. The renewed focus by the RIAA on college administrators represents a desperate maneuver and an evasion of more practical, broader solutions that embrace Internet sharing and rethink rights management issues. People steal music, and bringing...
...Palestinians have agreed to unite less out of common conviction than out of the necessity brought on by a crippling financial siege and Arab diplomatic pressure. The differences that persist among them were clear in the parliamentary session that ratified the new government: President Abbas made a speech emphasizing negotiations, while Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' political leader, re-asserted the Palestinian right to "resistance," and spoke not of recognizing Israel, but of extending a truce if a Palestinian state were established along its 1967 borders...