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...dean.”“These cases are very sensitive. They involve people’s careers,” he added.In addition to Frieden, the CPC includes physicists Paul C. Martin and Gary J. Feldman, English professor Philip James Fisher, Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, geologist John H. Shaw, and chemist Gregory L. Verdine. The investigating subcommittee’s membership is considered confidential, and it includes professors not on the CPC. The two sources said the subcommittee is composed of a Law School professor and two FAS members.—Staff writer Javier...
...addition to Frieden, the CPC includes physicists Paul C. Martin and Gary J. Feldman, English professor Philip James Fisher, Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, geologist John H. Shaw, and chemist Gregory L. Verdine. The investigating subcommittee’s membership is considered confidential, and it includes professors not on the CPC. The two sources said the subcommittee is composed of a Law School professor and two FAS members...
...heavy focus on detection technology for the entire region may be draining resources from the more critical problems of basic preparedness in those areas most threatened by tsunamis. "In western Sumatra, there is no emergency preparation beyond what would save 1% of the people here," says Kerry Sieh, a geologist at the California Institute of Technology who has spent years studying Indonesia. Sieh fears that a tsunami far deadlier than the one on July 17 could strike the western coast of Sumatra or Java at any time, and warns that the international community first needs to devote itself...
...adviser to Kurdistan's regional government. Kurdish officials estimate their unexplored oil reserves at about 45 billion bbl. If that's accurate, Kurdistan's power could soar within Iraq, which depends almost completely on oil for its exports. Some researchers believe the Kurds' oil estimates are unrealistic, but geologist Plintz says his research suggests that unexplored reserves "could be among the biggest in the world." In addition, more than 10 billion bbl. of proven reserves lie underneath the city of Kirkuk, which is situated outside Kurdistan but whose political status is still disputed by Kurds. Though Kirkuk's oil production...
...region. In January, Memphis was ranked second least-prepared (after Louisville, Ky.) among 30 big cities studied by the American Disaster Preparedness Foundation. "Memphis has an aging infrastructure and many of its large buildings, including unreinforced schools and fire and police stations, are particularly fragile," U.S.Geological Survey geologist Eugene Schweig testified at the Capitol in February. "Very few buildings were built using modern building codes...