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...problem with institutional memories is of course you remember all the wonderful things but you also remember all the things that were scary. We are an urban campus. We are not a closed campus.”Still, many Currierites have not taken kindly to the new security protocol, which now requires a guard to be present from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. every day.“The fear is that these changes aren’t just the end of it, that they’re indicative of the House masters’ position in general, that they?...
...favor receiving over giving on peer to peer networks. And given the cooperative nature of such systems—everything downloaded has first to be uploaded by someone else—such selfish asymmetry can be crippling. BitTorrent, which Seuken identified as the most commonly employed peer-to-peer protocol, attacks the problem of inducing downloaders to give by employing a “tit-for-tat” system of barter, in which downloaders are required to share pieces of a file with each other. But the system has its limitations, according to Seuken. Seuken said he believes this...
...were to draft one international politician to be your front man on climate change, Australian Prime Minister John Howard would not be high on your list. The conservative politician - and "mate of steel" to George W. Bush, according to the U.S. President - refused to enact the Kyoto Protocol and has long expressed doubt about global warming. Australia is second only to the U.S. in per-capita carbon dioxide emissions among major countries, and it's the world's biggest exporter of coal, the cheap, dirty fuel responsible for a quarter of the world's total carbon emissions...
...well. Howard's sudden conversion on climate change is at least partially driven by the fact that global warming has emerged as a top concern among voters in Australia, which has suffered through years of extreme drought. The opposition Labor Party, which has pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol, is leading in most opinion polls, and an election will occur before the end of the year. "Environmental issues have moved to the center of mainstream politics here," says Cook...
...that there's a national election coming up, but Downer believes "APEC very much has the potential to launch a new approach on the issue." Last year Australia helped launch the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, five of whose six members belong to APEC. Rejecting Kyoto Protocol-style restrictions, the AP6 vowed a voluntary, collaborative effort to promote clean-energy technologies and efficient energy use. Australia wants APEC leaders to give the climate-change ball a strong AP6 spin ahead of December's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, which will kick off the process of drafting...