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...think an argument can be made that reduction of the quorum is likely to increase turnout,” Stock said. “Because any Faculty member who knows that quorum will be achieved will have an additional incentive to attend when there’s a topic being discussed that’s of interest to that particular Faculty member.” Stock is one of the three members of the Faculty’s docket committee—the body whose duties include overseeing what Professor of German Judith L. Ryan called...
...first step to making that case is understanding exactly what warmer temperatures will do to us and our diseases - and few scientists know more about the topic than Patz, a member of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Hear Patz talk about global warming and health on this week's Greencast.) As temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves - like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people - will take a toll. At the same time, climate models...
Mark Alexander, a Dallas attorney, says he's ethically obligated to do what's best for his clients, "and that includes saving them money." So when one of them asks him to research a securities-fraud topic, for example, or breach of contract, he doesn't even think about applying his $395 hourly rate. Instead, he calls Atlas Legal Research, an outsourcing company based in Irving, Texas, that uses lawyers in India to provide the service for $60 per hr. "When a client pays me a $25,000 retainer and I can save them money, I will do so," says...
...would say if Obama asked him to be his running mate, Richardson responded, “If it doesn’t work out that’s fine, but I’m ready to do everything I can to get him elected.” On the topic of the presidential race, Richardson also talked about eliminating superdelegates altogether, financing elections publicly, and making the schedule of primaries more certain. But Richardson’s talk was not limited to the national elections. He also touched on what he thinks the country should do in Iraq, foreign policy...
...help but feel that his editors ought to have taken another look at the manuscript before it went to print. To be fair, the book is not entirely lacking in insight. Leitch’s essay about steroids is a particularly cogent meditation on sports’ most-discussed topic, if only because its thesis is one rarely voiced in the media: the truth is, we just don’t care. At the end of the day, Barry Bonds is an incredible athlete, even if he was using steroids, and sports is hardly the only arena where cutthroat competition...