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...Once you’re laughing, your defenses are down, so you actually have to think about it,” Sigma Chi brother Joshua D. Foote ’10 said of Kimmel’s suggested tactic to prevent sexual assault...
Business School professors said that greater transparency in derivative transactions could help prevent similar situations in the future...
...There's also the question of economic viability. Most of the oil is in the south, hence Deng's offer to share oil revenue. "People think I'm selling out," he says. "I'm trying to prevent a [northern] collapse that would affect not just us but Egypt, Chad, Libya and Ethiopia." (See pictures of oil fires...
...summer, using some 30,000 troops to dislodge the guerrillas from the once-bustling tourist haven, 80 miles northwest of the capital Islamabad. Now, however, almost a year after winning the war, the same number of troops are still in place in order to hold Swat, rebuild it and prevent a Taliban resurgence - and that may keep Islamabad from going after the extremists in other parts of Pakistan's unruly frontier with Afghanistan...
Napolitano, whose name has been floated as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court, said that the federal government is working to share intelligence with international allies to combat foreign terrorism, and with local officials to prevent home-based threats. She also emphasized the importance of staying ahead of the Internet and new technology in modern terrorism...