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Communications are expected to be a huge headache yet again. During Katrina, New Orleans overnight lost $500 million worth of telecom structure--fiber-optic and copper wire--leaving the city's emergency-operations center at city hall with a superfast T1 line as useless as a set of tin cans. Deputy mayor Meffert ended up handing out Nextel walkie-talkies for all the out-of-town help and cobbling together a voice-over-Internet communications system out of old computers, which still serves the city...
...supreme authority of parliament. Vinod C. Dixit Ahmedabad, India Up from the Ooze Scientists are hailing Tiktaalik Roseae, or the fossil "fishapod," as evidence of evolution [April 17]. Yet in the same article, they admit that the elongated fin of the fishapod would have been "worse than useless" on land and that the appendage is only "anatomically" - and not functionally - intermediate between lobed fins and legs. If some level of function does not follow anatomical form, then natural selection has nothing to work upon to produce legs from fins. That article presented more evidence of the grip that evolution...
...sponsors. The amendment includes a “sunset” provision, which calls for the council to vote on whether it will keep the new committee next spring. But opponents of the amendment said that the committee would lack a clear purpose and would only add useless bureaucracy. “Students will see that this is a do-nothing committee,” said Benjamin W. Milder ’08. “You can’t just say that you’re going to liaise with students in the abstract.” Milder...
...colleges to contribute to a database will be a difficult task. Individual schools have little to gain from the database and therefore have almost no reason to open their records to the government. Given the likely difficulty of collecting data, the database could very well turn into an expensive, useless bureaucracy. Funds toward creating and maintaining such a database would be better spent on other educational initiatives such as grants and loans...
...Iranian nation won't give a damn about such useless resolutions." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, which defied the United Nations Security Council's deadline last week to end its nuclear program or face punitive resolutions...