Word: protection
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...HABITAT calls the Bangladeshi capital "the world's fastest-growing megacity." Located at the heart of one of the world's largest river systems, it is also one of the most flood-prone. One solution is the Dhaka Integrated Flood Control Embankment. Its two main aims are laudable: protect eastern Dhaka from the overflowing Balu river and, with a road running along its top, ease the city's mind-bending traffic jams. But the $350 million project is so ill-conceived it will actually worsen flooding, claims landscape architect Iqbal Habib, one of many eminent Bangladeshi experts opposing it. Much...
...meaningful itemized billing” to the right of a consumer at the supermarket to have a written receipt of exactly what they are being charged. Edelman charges that Google’s practice of not telling advertisers exactly where their ads are shown only serves to protect Google’s monopoly. “If they did share it, [advertisers] might not like everything [they] saw,” he said. The professor’s push for transparency has already garnered support from some in the industry. “Edelman is shining the flashlight on issues...
...hits the Harvard campus this fall, Medical School Professor and Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Health Publications Anthony L. Komaroff has been involved in public outreach, including creating videos to show people how to protect their families from swine...
...Serbia's gay and lesbian community, the first time it's been able to hold a gay-pride parade in the capital since 2001. But the parade, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 20, was abruptly cancelled at the last minute after police said they would not be able to protect participants from attacks by ultranationalist thugs. In addition to promoting gay rights, the parade was supposed to show that a decade after the end of the Balkan wars, Serbia is a functional democracy, ready to join the European Union. Instead, the cancellation of the event raised a stark question: Can Serbia...
...Serbia's E.U. membership] in mid-October," Milica Delevic, the head of Serbian Office for European Integration, tells TIME. "Europe expects us not just to pass antidiscrimination laws but also to implement them and to create a political climate where you don't need 10,000 cops to protect a minority...