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...Fire Service ceo Euan Ferguson: most of its destructive work was done in just six hours. At the township of North Shields, where teacher Helen Castle was killed, residents jumped into the sea to escape the flames. "We had very experienced fire fighters out there, and the rate of spread of this fire was beyond their comprehension." As it gathered speed, hundreds of fire-fighters and locals risked their lives trying to stop it. It quickly became an impossible task, says Ferguson: "A fire like that is a force of nature that cannot be stopped...
...Bank president's spacious offices in Washington. If Brown were appointed, he would likely serve 10 years (as Wolfensohn has done) which would give him the satisfaction of being a figure on the world stage when Blair had long retired to the board of the Carlyle Group and a spread in Gascony. Yet the Chancellor, it appears, still dreams of the premiership, still lets what he believes to be Blair's broken promises to stand down gnaw at his soul. That's no way for a good man to spend his time. Chuck it, Gordon; go for the Bank...
...solidarity. Epidemics are simply too slow. And localized catastrophes, such as the mudslides and floods in the U.S. last week or even the Iranian earthquake of 2003, are usually too parochial in their victimization to catch the attention of all humanity. It takes a multicontinental cataclysm--instantaneous, catastrophic, widely spread--to shake the world from its self-absorption. The tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near-universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving. Ronald Reagan once startled the U.N. by suggesting in a speech that humanity would unite and forget...
...Mission Your article about St. Francis Xavier questions his importance, claiming he was a failure as an explorer and as an adventurer, but this is misleading [Dec. 13]. St. Francis Xavier was first and foremost a missionary. His primary goal was to introduce the doctrine and spread the seed of Christianity. In this aspect, he was a roaring success. He was one of the first seven members of the Jesuits, a religious order now recognized as a pillar of the Catholic Church. He never conquered states as an adventurer nor discovered new wonders as an explorer because he was never...
Nonetheless, Shraga said uclaprofessors.com “turned out to be very popular” among the student body, inspiring him to spread the idea at other colleges. One UCLA student who has used the site, Daniel Eliav, said he liked it because it was “user friendly...