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...their study, Haas and Mileti develop the following four-phase scenario based on their interviews and advances in earthquake forecasting...
Whichever scenario is correct, says Astrophysicist Greenstein, "I find a certain pleasure and honor in belonging to the universe of stars, of these events that have created the materials of which the earth and I are made." It is a sentiment many can echo. The final consolation has always been, as humanity looking upward measured its own finiteness against the infinity of the stars, that it is better to have been for a season, even a moment, than not to have been at all. The stars thus are no less symbols in their newly understood mortality than they were, seemingly...
Military ventures get a similar cost-benefit analysis. A Rand researcher in 1973 suggested that efficiency could be determined by defining military output in terms of "the capability to destroy 1000 tanks in a 90-day Central European war scenario, or the capability to deliver a given amount of bomb tonnage in Southeast Asia." His formulas did not include significant variables representing such factors as a ravaged European countryside or a decimated village in Vietnam...
...nearly a decade, this has been NATO's standard scenario of an East-West war. Today, however, concern is mounting, especially among West Europeans, that this is dangerously outdated. After a recent inspection of NATO installations, Senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bartlett of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged that Soviet forces in Europe could now mount a surprise attack, blitz their way past NATO's defenses and reach the Rhine in 48 hours. Reported the Senators: "Should the NATO alliance fail to improve its conventional war-fighting capabilities ... the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies soon...
...would be difficult to prove, however, that Harvard handled the two cases differently because Brown-Beasley is white and Fredie is black. A more likely scenario is that Brown-Beasley could be fired with little fuss, his oddities and outspokenness having weakened his standing within the administration. The Fredie case, on the other hand, was potentially explosive: there were charges that Harvard higher-ups were involved in the alleged prostitution operation and students had definitely been linked to the case. Indeed the delay in the publicizing of the conviction suggests the care with which Harvard and the court authorities handled...