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...stopgap deal agreed to by owners last Friday aims to keep the two leagues separate for a year and delays the team merger, thereby averting a strike for at least another week. But few deny that Japanese baseball is ailing. Most teams, which exist primarily to advertise their corporate owners' name, are losing money, and fans are being drawn away by other sports, like football. Television ratings of the nation's top team, the Yomiuri Giants, have dropped 38% in the past five years, and the league's best players have defected to the U.S. Owners say austerity measures such...
...Stanton Elman Pacific Palisades, California, U.S. While your article correctly pointed to the booming human population and a failure to safeguard big cats in wildlife preserves as reasons for their declining numbers, it neatly avoided a matter-of-fact discussion of the only solution that is not a mere stopgap: finding a way to curb rapidly spiraling world-population rates. Until we are able to control human overpopulation, any species that competes with Homo sapiens for space and food is doomed. Karla Kellenberger Stow, Ohio, U.S. It was refreshing to see a conservation problem on the cover, rather than...
...come together to talk through hard questions, "to actually educate them, to repay this country by organizing ourselves to be loving people according to Islam." No doubt MI5 will have agents listening in at the meetings from time to time. But Khan is right that good intelligence is a stopgap, not a solution. "You can jail people who have already become terrorists, but there's always a new generation. If we can fix the whole environment, one extremist won't have any influence...
...Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 should not characterize this round of renovations as anything more than a stopgap measure. Even with new gym equipment and greater space, the MAC still will not meet student needs. The cost—$30 million estimated—along with the practical concern of relocating three varsity teams, has long held up full renovations of the MAC. Allston planning, including deciding which new varsity facilities will be built across the river, in turn, complicated...
...series of sexual assaults sparked administrators’ creativity and spurred positive reforms. Likewise, HUPD—after resorting to stopgap measures during the crime wave—has found that its makeshift changes could become permanent solutions...