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...never be too prepared. Cue the guy with the gun: “We have carefully-devised, well-rehearsed plans affecting the health and safety of the community,” said Chief Curtis Ostrander, director of Cornell University Police Department. “Because we use firearms, we train for incidents and emergencies during the summer, when students aren’t here.”—Ivy Infusion is a blog in a news article's body. Send comments, insights, and other identity crises to ivyinfusion@gmail.com...
King Coal's new popularity, however, is like a runaway mine train heading for a collision with states and cities struggling to meet pollution standards. Environmental controls on electric plants have cut emissions of six principal air pollutants by half since 1970, despite a 42% increase in energy consumption. But even with mandated controls, old-fashioned pulverized- coal plants still spew nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide (think acid rain) as well as toxic mercury. Carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for global warming, would soar. Shareholder activists are increasingly aggressive about demanding an accounting when companies like TXU, which had 2005 earnings...
...confrontations over Turkey's secular constitution are likely to grow. How will European governments respond to the claims of the religiously observant for protection? There is no single pattern applicable to all countries, but some - Germany, France and the Netherlands, for example - are now planning to help select and train "homegrown" imams instead of relying on a supply of less acculturated clerics from nations such as Turkey and Algeria. European politicians are beginning to recognize, as the German Interior Minister said recently, that moderate Muslims are the best possible defense against religious extremism and its violent wing. "We need...
...annihilate each other and the European Union to take root and prosper; their grandparents might remember G.I.s bearing nylons and Hershey bars. I have seen the power of such sentiments myself. When I was a high school exchange student in 1972, I had a rollicking argument with a train compartment full of East German teenagers about "imperialist America." But when I gave one of the girls a John F. Kennedy half-dollar, she broke into tears and gave me a big kiss. How many European teenagers today would feel that way about any American President? For Europeans to have less...
...legitimate experts" on France's problems. In person, she listens with the prim attentiveness of a Catholic schoolgirl. Yet she has no false modesty over paparazzi adulation, shrugging at photos of her in a bikini that caused a stir this summer. As she says in an interview aboard a train between Poitiers and Paris, her two main political bases, "Why should one have to be sad, ugly and boring to go into politics these days...