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Also yesterday, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) issued a community advisory to students, cautioning that they be especially alert when in the Square and near an empty lot at Mass Ave. and Arrow Street...
...lives joined at a circular pelvis. One twin, called Mary in court papers to protect the family's anonymity, has a flaccid, useless heart, no working lungs and an underdeveloped brain. She can suck, kick and open one eye but may not have consciousness. Her bodymate Jodie is "bright, alert, sparkling...very much a 'with-it' sort of baby," say doctors who testified before British high-court judge Robert Johnson. Mary's life depends on Jodie's heart and lungs, and the strain will probably give Jodie heart failure and kill them both in three to six months. Thus...
...This is precisely what Annan proposes, suggesting, too, that countries put their peacekeeping units on permanent alert and allow them to train together outside of crisis moments, so that, for example, a Jordanian infantry battalion is deployed together with a British logistics unit with which it has previously trained and worked. But all of this will take investment, and the U.N. has a hard enough time getting member states to pony up for its existing commitments. Still, because Western countries are unlikely to raise their enthusiasm for committing combat troops, they may be more inclined to foot a higher bill...
...this engineering, duplication and training fails, the U.S. Navy maintains a rescue sub perpetually on alert in San Diego. Built in the wake of the Thresher's loss, it is designed to reach trapped submariners anywhere in the world within three days. It could have come--had the Russians asked--to the Kursk's aid last week. Should American submariners find their vessel sinking, they have been trained to pull emergency stores of food and oxygen into whatever living space remains. They know that the rescue sub's goal is to hook up with a downed submarine within 72 hours...
Musykantsky's alert that the country is "at war" was a jab at Russia's liberals, who have been fighting a losing battle for more civil rights. Throughout the post-Soviet reform period, Moscow's city government has been enforcing Soviet-era rules that require visitors to register with the police. Russia's Constitutional Court, the nation's highest legal authority, has repeatedly held that these rules violate the rights granted by the Russian constitution. But constitutional debate in Russia is shaped more often by shrapnel than by legal doctrine. Putin's anti-Chechen rhetoric often seems a calculated reminder...