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...result, it?s growing well beyond its original scope: Philadelphia, Boston, the Bronx and cities in Maine, Vermont and Rhode Island have received a total of 45 million gallons of the subsidized Citgo fuel, and other cities are slated for another 5 million soon. That?s a small percentage of the heating oil Venezuela exports to the U.S. each year, but Citgo says it has set aside about 10% of its refined petroleum products for the program. Says Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., "Unfortunately for the Bush Administration, Chavez is proving...
...eating chlorofluorocarbons proved more dangerous than anyone realized. Drug disasters like the thalidomide scandal made some people nervous about the unintended consequences of new drug treatments. It's in that context of skepticism toward science that some reasonable questions have been raised lately about genetically modified foods and the scope of human embryonic work...
...time to blame different sides for the imprudence of their policies or the shortcomings of their performance. There is a new reality on the ground in Palestine, but it is neither unprecedented nor reason to panic.This abrupt political upset in the Middle-East is not unprecedented in nature and scope; the general election rivaled, in its ferocity and politically unsettling outcome, the Israeli political epic of 1977. In 1977, the Israeli Labour party lost the general elections to the Likud for the first time in the history of the state of Israel. The disciples of David Ben-Gurion, the founding...
...looks pretty fractured” compared with the president’s broad vision of American championing of the freedom overseas, especially in the Middle East. Howell said that Bush’s domestic proposals, including the competitiveness initiatives, “don’t have the scope of past initiatives like reforming Medicare and Medicaid, like reforming social security...
...option.On this page, in the HCCR reports, in senior surveys, and amongst faculty, a consensus has developed that the Core is antiquated and broken. Instead of teaching “approaches to knowledge” as intended, it pigeonholes students into taking courses that are specific and narrow in scope, producing graduates who may be interesting to chat with at cocktail parties but who are not necessarily broadly educated. Furthermore, the Core provides professors with captive audiences, eliminating the incentives of competition which would force professors to innovate and improve the courses themselves.Given the acknowledged flaws of the Core...