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...Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE), set to be completed early next year. The permit process requires that Harvard inform nearby residents in the Agassiz neighborhood of its intent to store dangerous chemicals. “What I want to know is what the bottomline worst scenario could be,” said resident Carol Wienhaus last night at the Baldwin school where the meeting was held. “Could the building blow up?” Eric Martin, Harvard’s technical director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems, which will be the building?...
...indeed. There isn?t any new science in the study, titled ?Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change?: it?s a summary of research presented at a conference of the same name last year. But it does point out that the temperature need only rise about halfway to the worst-case scenario for such catastrophic events as the melting of the Greenland ice cap, or, worse yet, the West Antarctic ice sheet. The latter event could raise sea levels a whopping 5 meters, or about 16 ft., which could drown huge swaths of low-lying coastland and essentially wipe out countries like Bangladesh...
...economy does continue to hum along, it's partly by accident. What's conspicuously absent, the economists agreed, is a constructive dialogue between policymakers in both China and the U.S. that would put the two nations' increasingly interdependent economic relationship on a more balanced footing. Under this scenario, the U.S. would curb consumption and start saving more, while the Chinese - who have been buying hundreds of billions of U.S. securities, especially U.S. Treasury bonds - would save less and do more to boost their domestic demand. That would go a long way toward reducing the U.S.'s $800 billion current-account...
This issue is sufficiently nuanced as to require further clarification. In the 2002 book, Dershowitz considers a scenario in which a democratic government captures a terrorist who "knows or probably knows the location of a number of bombs...set to go off within the next twenty-four hours." Dershowitz wrote that the government could "forgo any use of torture and simply allow the preventable terrorist act to occur." But he acknowledged that such an approach would provoke "a great outcry in any democracy," and that in such a scenario, the United States probably would find a way to facilitate...
...loss of 15 seats in November would leave Bush with a Democrat-controlled House for the final quarter of his presidency, which his advisers believe could mean a nightmare of gridlock and investigations into Administration decisions and activities. In perhaps an even worse scenario for Bush's legacy, one of the city's best-connected Republicans said his friends are starting to fearfully consider what he calls the "whole shebang" theory: that the party will hold on to the House this year but just barely, then lose the House, Senate and White House in 2008. Republicans point out that Democrats...