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...most vulnerable flanks. Behind the breakwaters I hear the crash of invisible waves, in front the laughter of children swimming in the intensely blue water of a narrow canal. I wonder, What will the Maldives be like a couple of centuries from now? Will its corals have adapted to warmer conditions, as some think possible, or will they be forced to seek refuge in artificially maintained reefs? And what of its people, now spread out across 200 islands? Will they retreat to a few fortified strongholds and learn to live, as the Dutch have, behind high walls that cut them...
...Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Even if your experience of the English climate is merely cursory, you can appreciate that the onset of warmer weather is a cause for delirious rejoicing. May Day (the term does not, in this case, refer to anti-globalization riots but to May 1) is when the celebrations take place, and no English city embarks on them with more style than Oxford. The fashionable gathering place for the city...
...preferred strategizing grand operations like the Iraq war over managing the nuts and bolts of the department, which is what a deputy defense chief traditionally does. England, a seasoned defense-industry exec who helped develop the F-16 fighter, isn't a neocon ideologue like Wolfowitz and has cultivated warmer relations with Congress. In 2002 he helped save billions of dollars by combining the Navy and Marine Corps aviation programs, and he has been given politically sensitive duties, notably overseeing the Pentagon's review of detainee cases at Guantánamo Bay. Rumsfeld is counting on England's skills to help...
...hostile, hubristic, and threatened side of her personality, a choice that is in keeping with the script but also somewhat alienating for audiences. Her medical counterparts, Dr. Kelekian (John D. Boller) and Dr. Posner (Lenny M. Braman, HLS ’05) are brisk and impersonal. Posner is slightly warmer than Bearing yet less self-aware; unlike Bearing, has no idea that he should be more sympathetic, even as he describes his patient as “very unresponsive” on a clipboard before realizing that said patient is in fact deceased...
...weather turns warmer, most college students eagerly run outside to study on well-groomed lawns. But 14 students at Washington University in St. Louis have locked themselves indoors in the name of those who maintain their beautiful grounds...