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...year ago. But some of the panelists were heartened by what they see as genuine efforts by governments across the Continent to tackle some persistent problems, including a lack of labor mobility and unsustainable health-care and pension systems. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has introduced a slew of new measures designed to create jobs, including unpopular cutbacks in unemployment benefits. In France, the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin has triggered protests by changing the law to allow employees to work more than 35 hours a week and has begun revamping the system of state-funded medical benefits...
Posner considers a slew of world-ending scenarios with REM-style enthusiasm. He reports one scientist’s estimate that there’s a 1 in 100,000 chance of an asteroid smashing earth in any given year and killing a billion people. Alternatively, Posner speculates, “superintelligent robots” might turn on their human creators and “kill us, put us in zoos, or enslave...
Posner considers a slew of world-ending scenarios with REM-style enthusiasm. He reports one scientist’s estimate that there’s a 1 in 100,000 chance of an asteroid smashing earth in any given year and killing a billion people. Alternatively, Posner speculates, “superintelligent robots” might turn on their human creators and “kill us, put us in zoos, or enslave...
...fact, the Crimson has already downed a slew of top-15 teams (then-No. 10 Boston University, then-No. 10 Vermont, then-No. 11 Maine, and then-No. 9 Cornell), but Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 still deems tonight’s matchup “what may be our biggest game for the rest of the year as far as the NCAA tournament goes...
Dates may have been formal then, but they were also more frequent and less serious. Phil dated “a slew of girls,” although not many Quad residents, in his first two years at Harvard and felt he never got to know any of them well...