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...weapons. At least 14 people have been killed and an estimated 150 injured since protests turned violent Feb. 28. Berisha's announcement Saturday that Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi and his Cabinet would resign failed to calm the public fury. On Sunday, state television showed angry protesters looting an army arsenal in southern Albania and walking away with weapons. Outside Vlora, crowds broke into and ransacked President Berisha's summer home. Berisha is blaming the violence on his political rivals, including the socialists, the successors to the communists who controlled the country before his Democratic party took control in 1992. Berisha...
...something about it. They did so most famously in 1991, when they took the pulse of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, predicted it was about to erupt and persuaded officials to evacuate 35,000 people two days before it did. Researchers now have at their disposal an arsenal of newly developed volcanology hardware, ranging from satellites to acoustical sensors to highly sensitive gas sniffers. Whether the technology is up to the task of monitoring not just one peak but hundreds worldwide, though, is impossible to say, but the question is becoming pressing. "Someday," says Robert Tilling, chief scientist...
...Reilly pictures the drug as one piece of artillery in a larger arsenal that includes chemotherapy and other drugs...
...Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby. Actually, this book should be read by anyone with a pulse, not just soccer fans. Hornby chronicles the relationship between sport and life through the lens of his own obsessive relationship with Arsenal Football Club; off-beat, thoughtful and often gutbustingly funny, it makes for an easy, quick read that might change the way you look at sport...
...Stars Pub. A quick (10 minutes from the Square) walk to 912 Massachusetts Avenue brings you Saturday and Sunday afternoon coverage of the English Premiership in a friendly atmosphere. The pub is Irish (and the Guinness half-decent), but expect lots of English expats cheering their favorite clubs from Arsenal to Liverpool...