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...injured, the police said. The incident occurred around the same time as three other robberies in Cambridge and Somerville, the advisory, which was sent to the Harvard community, said. “Harvard University Police Department is working closely with both the Cambridge and Somerville Police Departments to ascertain if the robberies are connected, and if so, to identity the suspect so that an arrest can be made,” the advisory said. The robbery was the second attack on a Harvard affiliate made public in a HUPD advisory this month. A female staff member reported being accosted...
...their path, that they could have walked out easily. Instead, they built a barricade to protect against toxic air, hunkered down and waited for rescue - but it never came, as mine officials were slow to gather a crew and to enter tunnels whose safety they couldn't ascertain. The 12 miners died of carbon monoxide poisoning...
Dead or alive? It's a question that has been fodder for morning radio contests and celebrity death pools, and has even given rise to a number of websites that allow you to ascertain whether your favorite star or minor celebrity has kicked the bucket or is simply living out the rest of his or her life in obscurity. Apart from our fascination with the morbid, Internet searches on dead vs. living celebrities give us insight into the half-life of fame, as well as what drives the popularity of stars who are no longer with...
...Brazilian social-networking website, had already created a “community.” By 1 a.m. it had more than 2,300 members. Just as Facebook.com and Myspace users memorialized the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings of April 16, Brazilians are already using similar mediums to ascertain the living and memorialize the dead...
...populations, i.e. children, the elderly, and the ill. Yet CORIs are practically unintelligble, both to employers and the people who have them because they are full of recondite abbreviations. This becomes a problem when employers use them to screen applicants, as CORIs are typically used. People with CORIs cannot ascertain the accuracy of their records, and employers use them as an indiscriminate way to weed out applicants; they order CORIs for all job applicants and dismiss applicants if they have a CORI, often without bothering to determine what the charges were or distinguish between guilty and innocent, convicted or released...