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...thousands has a hand in triggering a blaze, but the very presence of those thousands is what turns an otherwise messy event deadly. "The same fires happening wouldn't be anywhere near as serious without this development pattern," says Volker Radeloff, a forest ecologist at the University of Wisconsin...
...Wisconsin's Radeloff says those who choose to build homes in fire zones are "gambling with high stakes - and right now many of them are losing." One answer might be to make clear to those who choose to build in the highest-risk areas that they are effectively on their own - a message the insurance industry, which has grown reluctant to protect exposed properties, is communicating to Western home-owners. But while it's easy to see that logic - and to point fingers at the very victims of the fires - this week it's impossible not to focus more...
...Crimson placed 12th overall and 10th among collegiate crews (14:55.57), coming in just behind entries from Boston University and Virginia. A U.S. Rowing eight came in first in the Championship Eight event as well, finishing in a blistering time of 14:03.71 on the three-mile course. Wisconsin finished first among collegiate teams with 14:30.02, while Harvard foes Brown, Princeton, and California rounded out the top five.“We basically just tried to row as strongly and consistently as possible,” senior Anton Wintner said, adding, “The Head of the Charles...
...only Giuliani, or so his argument goes, can wage those races. "Do we give it away again? The margin of error isn't what it used to be. We decided to kiss away New York, California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan...
...starters, it's hardly accurate to say the G.O.P. kissed off all those states last time around. Several were more competitive than some may recall. Facing Sen. John Kerry, Bush led from time to time in some statewide polls in Wisconsin and Minnesota as well as in Michigan and Pennsylvania well into the last month of the 2004 campaign. I recall sitting with one of Kerry's top strategists on the final weekend of the campaign and hearing him worry out loud over a drink about what a difficult state Wisconsin has become for Democrats...