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...must pursue full legal punishment for drug offences because “it’s the law!” But why should the College put itself front line in the Government’s disastrous “war on drugs?” The concept of zero tolerance is both unfair and ineffective: It does little to dissuade drug use, and potentially carries hugely disproportionate penalties—prison and a permanent criminal record—for personal drug use. After all, the campus’ few potheads and even fewer hard drug users rarely cause great...
...long-lasting, so when ICDDR was established as the Cholera Research Laboratory in 1960, its mission was to evaluate such treatments. By the late 1960s, the facility had begun experimenting with oral rehydration and, within a few years, fatalities among its diarrhea patients had dropped from 50% to zero. Across the Bangladeshi delta, oral rehydration was also gaining ground at the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta. Teams at both centers knew they had an effective treatment - but they faced resistance from a profession that dismissed such a basic remedy as inferior to costlier IV saline...
...Airbus and to the aerospace industry (he's a manufacturing expert from the French glass company Saint Gobain), but also because the company is facing its biggest crisis since its founding in 1970. The company has slashed its delivery schedule for the A380 from one plane in 2006 to zero, from nine planes in 2007 to one, and from 25 planes in 2008 to 13. That's a significant setback for the behemoth's main customers, including Emirates and Singapore Airlines, which now must revise their expansion plans. They are expected to demand compensation and may even cancel their orders...
...PRESIDENT OF Penn, Judith Rodin, made more than $1 million last fiscal year for zero days of work, the Daily Pennsylvanian reports. A spokeswoman for the schools calls it "deferred compensation" for meeting goals in Rodin's decade as Penn's leader. That salary topped current president (and Harvard presidential candidate) Amy Gutmann by at least 325 large...
...most ambitious revolutionaries don't just topple regimes; they remake time. The Khmer Rouge started over the calendar at Year Zero. The French revolutionary government decreed a decimal day of ten hours, composed of 100 minutes, each with 100 seconds. The cable-news Jacobins at Fox News may be wishing they had rejiggered their calendar so that they could have celebrated their 10th anniversary a year ago, when they were at their ratings apex. Today, the channel is in its first ratings slump, still far ahead of CNN and MSNBC, but not by as much...