Please ship them by UPS, or mail them by USPS' discounted Special Standard Mail rate. We appreciate the hard work of packing, lifting, and mailing books and journals, and regret all the more that we cannot reimburse you for domestic US shipping costs. For caring and sharing your books with faculty and students on the other side of the world who would thank you in person if they could. The information is based on findings from the 2000 Engineering Futures Forum held in Canberra, Australia in February 2000. Given that the trends of globablizing and public sector shrinking are occurring around the world, and that these are affecting all technical professions including scientists and engineers, this report may be relevant outside Australia.
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The site also contains an archive section, including a comprehensive collection of Web-based information on recent earthquakes in Turkey, Taiwan, and Greece. These archives are continually updated and provide access to a wealth of information on each of these earthquakes in one place. While that may be true, usually it takes one person with an idea and many who support that idea to give the idea form, substance, and life. These volunteers in service are those who know education is desperately needed in seismic risk areas of our country. With the absence of moderate to large earthquake activity in the United States for the past six years, complacency has crept in and the silence in earthquake preparedness is deafening.