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The referendum was met with criticism from groups that it would have affected most, including the management consulting firm Arthur D. Little, American Scientific and Engineering, and Cambridge’s largest defense contracting firm, Charles Stark Draper Labs, which was conducting design work on nuclear weapons at the time...

Author: By Marianna N Tishchenko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Activists Go Nuclear | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

3 | New York Swine Flu Shutters Schools As the number of people affected by the H1N1 virus surpassed 10,000 worldwide, schools in the U.S., Mexico and other countries continued to close--despite a CDC statement calling the move ineffective in containing the illness. Japan has shut more than 4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

After law school, Sotomayor worked for five years in the office of Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, where she prosecuted everything from petty drug crimes to felony assaults and murder. No less than her background in the projects, her experience pressing criminal cases may have affected her outlook years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: A Justice Like No Other | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

The crisis could get worse if crucial steps are not taken now. Despite what has become a public outpouring of support for the refugees, with civil-society groups, aid agencies and the local media leading a high-profile campaign to marshal resources, funds are running perilously low. Last Friday, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fleeing the Taliban, Pakistani Refugees in Limbo | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

But many prison officials believe the only surefire way to combat the problem is to jam cell-phone signals within prison walls. Yet any jammer for the slammer would run afoul of the Communications Act of 1934, which prohibits intentional interference with radio signals. Brady's proposed bill (and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prison Cell-Phone Use a Growing Problem | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

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