Word: preparedness
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China is dealing with visible and invisible opposition in the months before the Beijing Olympics begin. The visible was front-and-center in the world media as the OIympic torch made its way through various countries on a circuitous route to the Games. Everywhere Chinese security is on guard against...
Repeated rain delays forced the Harvard softball team to take a mid-week trip down the winding roads to Ithaca to play a double-header with Cornell that was originally slated for last Saturday. The Crimson dropped the first game but pulled out a win in the second to salvage...
The study compared two groups of 100 terminally-ill children—one was studied from 1990 to 1997 and another from 1997 to 2004—and found that parents in the latter group reported they felt more prepared for their child’s death and that their...
But he also came to respect the way Catholic leaders in the U.S. went about their business. A current (non-American) CDF official notes that the U.S. church is the only one that keeps a "serious" doctrinal office rather than an unthinking rubber stamp or an old-boys' club; when...
But then, this nation has historically afforded certain privileges to its military personnel, and the old Navy flyer John McCain is confident he has earned a pass. "I enjoyed every single moment of my life here," he announced in a prepared speech Wednesday in Pensacola, Fla., "from learning to fly...