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...hurricane. Unlike the police, which had scores of defections in the aftermath of Katrina, the fire department had none. But of the 600-plus firefighters, 100 are out sick on any given day, much of it ascribed to Katrina-related illnesses, says Superintendent Charles Parent. To avoid a repeat of last year's looting, Police Superintendent Warren Riley has promised that the city's cops will be on the streets patrolling with National Guard troops and enforcing a 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew on those who don't leave. He has already asked for 3,000 Guardsmen...
...avoid being caught again "with our britches down," Meffert says, he not only has Plans A and B for emergency communications but also Plans C, D, E and F. He has moved the backup generators to higher ground; installed a wi-fi system downtown and backed up "hot spots" like city hall, emergency operations and the police command center with solar chargers; brought in wi-fi-compliant phones that allow emergency management to text message as well as make calls; and wrangled four vans with satellite uplinks in the event all else fails. Finally, he got what he jokingly refers...
...coincident. Although the CDC estimated that 18,000 adults and adolescents diagnosed with AIDS in 2004 were exposed to HIV via male-to-male sexual contact, they also estimated that a substantial 13,000 others had contracted the virus via heterosexual behavior. Moreover, regardless of whether people who currently avoid taking an HIV/AIDS test do so out of negligence or to avoid stigma, making testing more common will improve the information environment and help curtail HIV propagation. On a similar note, we hope the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will follow the CDC’s lead by altering...
...avoid Joe Wilson, whose presence at these sorts of things appears to have been written into D.C. liberals' social contract, but all together the wonky audience generated about much heat as Jennifer Lopez's little finger (a unit of measurement known as the "Gigli"). Fittingly, the carpet wasn't even red, but green, and there wasn't champagne but rather some perfectly serviceable California chardonnay that came in boxes. Or you could hit the "yogurt bar." I'm sure the reception in Cannes was different...
...vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything at all. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction.Of course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation...