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Most natural disasters strike hard and fast. Tornado, hurricane, earthquake, flash fire and flood all do the worst of their worst in violent bursts and spasms. Droughts are different. They have no discernible beginning; no one wakes up of a morning, looks out a window and says, "Uh-oh, here comes a long dry spell." Droughts seem deceptively serene, no more threatening than an endless expanse of blue, cloudless sky. They unfold in slow motion, a tempo ill suited to daily headlines and TV-news reports. Covering one is like sitting around watching the grass not grow. In The Grapes...
...windshield and back window were shot out, the witnesses said. Police are searching for a gray Peugeot 505 that fled the scene, the Lagos state police command said...
...came back from a date and learned that my freshman roommate had jumped out our third floor window the third week of school," one alumna wrote of her worst college experience. "The week before, I had told my freshman advisor that my roommate was binging and purging (although I didn't know those terms then), and she told me not to worry about...
Economic theory holds that in a perfectly competitive industry, no effort will need to be expended to sell the product. The supply will be equivalent to the demand, and the work of the market would simply be to match up buyers and sellers. Advertising, window dressing and product differentiation are all unknown to the wheat market, for instance, which is the closest thing to perfect competition in United States. Time Warner and other media conglomerates, however, see effort not simply as part of their business but as their whole business. We may conclude that they have a high degree...
Nestled in a sunny section of University Hall, the office of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III overlooks the center of Harvard Yard. On the 25th anniverary of his appointment as dean, the view of Widener Library and Memorial Church from Epps' window is a reminder that the College's original planners believed wise leadership would join the twin pillars of intellectual achievement and religious belief to form the foundations of an enlightened University...