Word: weatherized
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...notion of weather as war maker has influential backers. On April 16, 2007, 11 former U.S. admirals and generals published a report for the Center for Naval Analyses Corporation that described climate change as a "threat multiplier" in volatile parts of the world. The next day, then British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett hosted a debate on climate change and conflict at the U.N. Security Council in New York City. "What makes wars start?" asked Beckett. "Fights over water. Changing patterns of rainfall. Fights over food production, land use. There are few greater potential threats to our economies, too, but also...
...even those who reject these arguments, and insist foreign policy be dictated by self-interest, find themselves swayed by a third argument. If weather starts wars, and wars incite terrorists and violent opponents to the West, then it is in the West's self-interest to try to manage the weather. Darfur is a test case of whether our leaders are able to embrace this kind of broad, long-term view over short-term gains. If they can, they may be able to prevent the pattern repeating...
...Despite the rainy New England weather and impending Thankgiving break, a strong crowd of 1,321 fans showed up. Most noticeable of all was the Harvard Band. Not a common presence at Lavietes Pavilion in seasons’ past, the band definitely made the rest of the arena aware of them with their constant songs throughout all the breaks and loud cheering when there weren’t breaks. In addition to songs like “It’s My Life,” “Don’t Stop Believing...
State crews will monitor the Breakers reef, a popular diving spot, next week, weather-permitting, in order to curtail private divers from entering the damaged area and flipping and moving corals. Those divers may believe they are doing good but such movement may actually further damage the reef and inhibit government restoration efforts. Sponges should be left to recover alone; but damaged brain, maze, great star and other hard corals will have to be cemented in placed at their old location. Such hard corals are so sensitive and take decades to grow back, at a rate of a few centimeters...
...bedfellows. It's not that we have a moral obligation to turn the other cheek when Hugo Chavez dubs George Bush a "devil," or when pockets of America inaccurately assign blame for U.S. unemployment levels on Latin migrants. It's that doing so will, for example, help both parties weather the global economic crisis. Some of these recommendations (like the U.S. pivoting on its Cuba policy) may not take, while others rehash what has become conventional wisdom (the war on drugs is a pricey, ill-conceived boondoggle). But on the whole, the authors make a strong case...