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...second term last year boasting that he would reform the system or "explode into a ball of fire." He proclaimed the most sweeping slate of changes Japan has seen in a century, committing himself to a six-point program to reduce the size of government, liberalize financial markets and unravel the country's byzantine web of economic regulations...
...factors working against any sort of agreement in Kyoto, the last hope of controlling that change may depend on what happens there this week. Even the feeblest of agreements is better than none, says M.I.T. atmospheric chemist Michael Molina, who shared a 1995 Nobel Prize for helping unravel the tangentially related problem of ozone depletion. "The larger issue is to make sure the process begins," he says. "We'd better get started...
Meselson is currently trying to unravel that mystery...
There was nothing fun, however, about watching a man's career and reputation unravel before a nation's eyes, especially in the steadfast presence of his father, his children and his prospective wife. "From my point of view," said Albert, "I just felt that I had to end this ordeal for myself, my wonderful family, my fiance Heather, my friends and supporters...
Thernstrom described Halfway Heaven not as criticism of Harvard as an institution or a reflection on the lack of support services for students suffering from mental illnesses, but as a narrative, an "attempt to understand what happened, to get inside Sinedu's mind, to unravel the mystery. That was my focus...