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...senior U.S. law-enforcement officials tell TIME they are continuing to follow the case closely and are learning even more disturbing details about what the group may have been plotting. Reports on the British investigation, now circulating among U.S. law-enforcement agencies, assert that the group was trying to construct a crude radiological dirty bomb. The arrests (which followed a yearlong surveillance operation, code-named Operation Spangle) turned up a cache of household smoke detectors, which the British suspect the group wanted to cannibalize for their minute quantities of americium-241, a man-made radioactive chemical. Officials tell TIME...
...November 2” on the front and back, respectively, will be dispensed to Winthropians this afternoon in hopes that they will wear them on campus, reminding students of their individual importance in the political process. The project is meant to motivate swing state students to assert their voice in an election where their votes have the potential to profoundly affect the outcome. And, as Harvard students indeed hail from all over the country, including some of the most influential states in the Electoral College, the importance of this project is clear. Less than a month away, the election still...
...policy reform and changes in funding for education and health care. With such highly contested issues appearing on state ballots, it’s likely that—if encouraged and reminded by projects such as “I Decide”—more students will assert their civic duty this election...
COVER STORY BLUE VS. RED TRUTH America's left and right are fighting to assert their own versions of reality...
Blue Truth, Red Truth The left and the right are in a cutthroat battle to assert their own versions of reality...