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...Women’s studies and ethnic studies are interdisciplinary just like the Classics, and I think they have just about the same amount of unity as Classics, and they’re just as respectable. I think the critics just want to make a lot of noise, and they haven’t really looked very deeply at what’s going on in these disciplines. They haven’t thought too much about how disciplines are formed...
...years. The funding from governments, however, soon dried up and in 1970 the disease still plagued much of the world’s population. Today, effective global malaria control would require an estimated $5 billion a year; according to the New York Times, Americans spent 10 times that amount on cosmetics and toiletries in 2006. Europeans spent $50 billion on cigarettes...
...safety disparity has many causes, including greater automation in the U.S. and a more sustained focus on workplace safety. China depends on relatively cheap coal as a key source of energy for its rapidly growing economy, and its mines churn out more than twice the amount as the U.S. In 2008, China produced 2.85 billion tons of coal, versus 1.17 billion in the U.S. Coal mines are responsible for a large share of global mine disasters because they are more likely to produce toxic and combustible gases than metal or other mines...
...services officer in the chest. They fled without making any effort to steal the nuclear material, and the reason for the break-in and the attackers' identity remain a mystery. "The break-in validated what we do. Current international security guidelines are woefully inadequate," Bieniawski says, adding that no amount of physical protection can provide total security or combat the "insider threat." All confirmed cases of illicit trafficking of HEU in the past 20 years have involved employees siphoning off material and attempting to sell it on the black market - such as the 1992 arrest of a Russian engineer caught...
...talk of stirring democracy, critics say the experience of such schemes in places like California and Switzerland shows that some initiatives fail to generate reasoned debate and open participation. Jean-Thomas Leseuer, head of the Thomas More Institute, a Paris-based think tank, says citizens' initiatives amount to mere democratic window dressing. "It is not with old tools that we will build Europe," he says. "This proposal is too heavy and complicated to impose on Europe before anything like a European consciousness exists. I bet that there will be very few initiatives." (See pictures of Paris expanding...