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...waste. The legal framework around shipbreaking, like much in the maritime business, is murky. In 2004, the signatories of the 1989 Basel Convention, which regulates the transport of hazardous waste, agreed that a ship bound for demolition could be considered as such material, and hence is subject to strict rules on its movements. France is a Basel signatory, but its courts have ruled that, because the Clemenceau is "war equipment," they have no jurisdiction to rule whether or not it qualifies as waste. Indian Environment Minister Thiru A. Raja insisted last week that "ships that contain asbestos as part...
...Guilcher is gravely ill with asbestosis. "We think it's completely illegal to send this boat to a foreign country," he tells Time, his conversation punctuated by hacking coughs. "If we don't want to poison France, why should we poison another country?" The Indian Supreme Court will rule on whether to accept the ship in the coming weeks, but that might not be the last word for the industry. For shipping lines and navies, the issue is economic. South Asian shipbreaking, says Carsten Melchiors, secretary-general of bimco, a Copenhagen-based association that represents 65% of the world...
...abortion experienced a larger decline than those that have not. Reductions are particularly steep, he found, in states that restricted the use of Medicaid funds to pay for poor women's abortions and those that required pre-abortion counseling about fetal development and abortion risks. (Lisa complied with that rule by phone...
...proposal for secondary fields all have behind them the purpose of bringing our students and faculty together in intensive, inescapable ways, making it possible-indeed making it expected-that students and faculty can engage in small groups settings from the beginning of the Freshman year, and as the rule, not as the exception. After all, if we bring to Cambridge (we know) the best students and (we trust) the best faculty, should they not engage with each other, and learn from each other, rather more directly than they do? I am convinced that only if we succeed in this effort...
...micro level, I had an up-close look at the loosening of concerns in one of the places you?d think would be most paranoid about security: a commercial flight. Over the holidays, the FAA temporarily resurrected the post-911 rule forbidding passengers from leaving their seats during the final half hour of any flight headed into Washington?s Reagan National Airport. Inconveniently, the crew of my Reagan-bound flight failed to warn passengers of the approaching limit (as was commonly done), until we had passed it, leaving me not only in need of a bathroom break, but also holding...