and the situation is likely to get worse. unfavorable weather conditions fueling the flames. sot tim chavez/cal fire official there s a lot of potential for some large fire growth on the north and west side of this fire in the next 24 to 48 hours. more than 100- thousand acres already scorched, and officials say containment is minimal. sot chief ralph terrazas/lafd this predicted wind event should last through saturday so we have several days before we are out of the woods. emotions running high as fires wreaking havoc in los angeles and ventura counties. sot/ventura resident i don t know what i m going to do right now. i can t think right because everything is burned down to the ground. here a heroic moment as one man risking his life to save a wild rabbit from the flames on highway 1. more than 260 public and charter schools in the los angeles area are closed throughout the rest of the week.and health officials advise residents to limit their outdoor time because of the sm
might expect to help them. but then the side effects of the radiation will be the side effects of the cancer, and the department of defense wasn t particularly interested in the effects of radiation on people with metastatic cancer, they wanted to know what the effects of radiation were on a healthy 23-year-old pilot. and that could be best studied by irradiating people whose karch cancers were not going to respond to the radiation. most of the patients who were irradiated were poor. most of the patients who were irradiated were african-american. all of them had cancer. some of them weren t all that sick. some of them were still ambulatory, some of them were still going to work. the radiation had some pretty serious effects. out of the 90 people who were irradiated, 21 of them were dead within a month. and here s what s there are many things bothersome about this. we know that when you irradiate people, they have side effects. you can get nauseated, you can get very nauseat
kagan s article and in the new republic of he s a well-known intellectual. maybe that s why he got it in the new republic. other people can write a counter view. if we re unhappy with the exceptional view of triumphalism, that s what we historians should try to do without getting caught in our own ideological biases, i would suggest. i m going to make half the panel feel old. i was in high school, i was a freshman when the wall fell. sorry. at least you weren t there when the wall went up. i don t know where my parents were. let me play the role of splitter you suggested there was a contrast. you can say on the whop happened those that tried to stand against the crowds with violence, then sort of succeeded, but those who acceded to the crowd, kind of their regions went away. where do we put romania in that? i think the roamanians like to be different. i think we have to put them in a third category because we should raoul that ceausescu did not have the opportunity to
conference, but you need something to tie the room together. why don t you have a leading scholar come in and present a manuscript in progress and really bring some of the leading scholars and practitioners who can critique that manuscript before it is too late? we have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. today, we do have one of the world s leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. the title is when the world seemed new: george h.w. bush and . e end of the cold war an associate professor of history and the director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. he is the author of numerous books. includehe most recent into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. and we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. he is going to say a few words about hi
can critique that manuscript before it is too late? we have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. today, we do have one of the world s leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. the title is when the world seemed new: george h.w. bush and the end of the cold war. jeff is an associate professor of history and the director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. he is the author of numerous books. two of the most recent include into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. and we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. he is going to say a few words about his manuscript. he put a few chapters of it up online. i know that some of you had a chance to look at it. ira said, you really should get a practitioner, someone who knows a thing or two about