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...allowed to take. But this year is different. Bad weather is making travel impossible; millions have been stranded on their journeys home, and with meteorologists predicting more snow in the days ahead for the country's already reeling central and southern regions, the crisis only looks set to worsen...
...create broad reactionary backlash in Belgrade and more enmity in the Balkans—the last thing that region needs. On the other hand, its current status is untenable. Kosovars have endured too much from resentful Serbs and have earned a right to self-determination. Further entanglement will only worsen the problem. It seems, then, that there can be no mutually acceptable solution as long as independence remains the fundamental question. Choosing sides will not actually lead to peace or stability. Somehow, the frame of the debate must shift. Paradoxically, the only resolution is one that renders Kosovo?...
...director for the Office of International Programs, no Harvard students are currently in Kenya or planning to travel there for credit next semester. The St. Lawrence University Summer Program in Nairobi announced on Wednesday that its program will proceed, but reserved the right to cancel the program if conditions worsen before Jan. 24. The School for Field Studies, an environmental study abroad program, is considering delaying or curtailing its program, while the School for International Training, which has two programs in Kenya, is carefully monitoring the unrest. Kenyan student Elvis K. Terigin ’10, however, said he believes...
...called eco-anxiety - free-form worry triggered by concerns about the worsening fate of the planet - and if you suffer from it, you might want to give Lester Brown's new book, Plan B 3.0, a pass. Brown - the president of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental think tank - paints a comprehensive and depressing picture of the planet, with ream after ream of dire statistics. Here's just a handful: Arctic summer sea ice shrinkage increased by 9.1% a decade between 1979 and 2006, and this year an area of ice almost twice the size of Britain melted...
...even religious policies to placate the growing power of Islamist-influenced rightists, Sarkozy clearly believes abandoning his trip in protest would be giving Abbès and his allies just what they want. "It's clear there are small but vocal majorities who want relations between the countries to worsen, not improve," Martinon explains. "We won't play into their hands by taking their bait...