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...Australia mourns the blaze's victims, questions are being raised at how a nation so prone to yearly bushfires could have been so desperately unprepared for this one. Last February, the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission was quickly established to investigate what went wrong. Though their report is not due until later this year, one of the failings could have been a decades-old evacuation policy advocated by the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) known as 'stay or go.' The policy encourages individuals confronted with bushfires to leave early, or stay behind and defend their property, with...
...Gates is prone to bracingly honest language that is not necessarily reassuring from a man who has the weight of Obama's Afghanistan policy on his shoulders. But that may be because Gates has something of the writer's sensibility about him. He has the look of a man both in the moment and at a slight angle, peering in, through dark glasses, upon the human comedy. In his 1996 memoir, From the Shadows, he wrote, "I was, during the remarkable events from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, there in the shadows, the proverbial fly on the wall...
...genius. But very few people, especially at a school like Harvard, are willing to admit that they’re not perfect. And many of us are prime targets for depression and eating disorders; we are high-achieving students at a high-pressure institution, prone to scathing self-criticism and inflated expectations...
...solution from politicians in Washington has been to allow people to be covered by their parents’ insurance until age 26. While this proposal would reduce some the impact of the mandate on the youngest age groups because they tend to be the healthiest and the least prone to high-cost diseases, it is not the cure-all for healthcare that some politicians have claimed it to be. The proposal may actually make sense in the current economic climate—the employment rate for people aged 16-24 has fallen to a low of 51.4 percent. But this...
...Harvard been prone to these streaks? It really is impossible to answer that question with any accuracy. I could try to put my finger on something like pre-season preparation, confidence, the academic schedule, or some other cause, but the truth may be that these streaks of really bad and really good are just coincidences...