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Rita: The Second Storm...
...last year’s unexpectedly successful outsider/insider ticket of Tracy “Ty” Moore ’06 and Ian W. Nichols ’06. When he won in Adams this year, UC insiders expected Wilson to try to take the Council by storm. So when he opted to be on the Finance Committee (FiCom)—which typically spits out fewer presidents and vice presidents than SAC or CLC—and then proceeded to bypass running for any leadership position, UC vets wondered if he had unwisely forfeited his advantage...
...thought about 9/11. In both tragedies, failures of hyperbureaucratic structures resulted in the loss of lives. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, there were loads of information and hints about terrorist activities before the attack. It was the same with Katrina. Meteorologists knew at least 48 hours before the storm hit the Gulf Coast that an exceptional force of nature was aimed at New Orleans. Military and medical aid should have been set up in anticipation. I cannot believe that a civilized and highly developed, rich nation was unable to provide people with water, food and medicine over...
...Shetland Islands, 150 miles off the northern tip of Scotland, are about as remote as it gets from London or the Caribbean. But for Laurent Viguie, 44, a financier in the City, and Karol Rzepkowski, 41, who was running a scuba and windsurfing business on Grenada, the storm-swept Shetlands with their clean, cold water were the perfect place to set up an environmentally friendly aquaculture business to produce...
That is all scary stuff--and it may be years away--but a worldwide epidemic is brewing. No one can tell if it will be a Category 1 or a Category 5 storm or when it will hit. Katrina taught us you can survive the initial catastrophe and perish in the aftermath. "We are seeing the unfolding of a pandemic in slow motion," Dr. Klaus Stohr of WHO told a group of business leaders at Deutsche Bank in New York City last month. "We can reduce the damage, but we cannot avoid...