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...Assess your celebrity intelligence quotient with this week's assortment of Tinseltown testosterone and other offscreen exploits...
...said. Passing planes and helicopters are not an unusual part of the view from Shemtov’s window in the Belaire, which was built to sustain impact, he added. “The one thing that this does demonstrate is that we need to re-assess the laws pertaining to the flight zones surrounding this building,” Shemtov said. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...tendency to think that North Korea was not a nuclear weapons state," says John Pike, a weapons expert with Global Security.org. "It's sort of a blowback from Iraq. People have overcompensated on Iraq, and so now the standard of proof is, I'm not going to assess anybody as having something that has not been demonstrated unambiguously." Now that there is no such ambiguity, it should make it easier to bring China and South Korea into alignment with the U.S. and Japan and coordinate a strategy to contain the regime...
Precisely how useful this information will be is hard toassess. Indeed, a few experts are dismissive of the whole project. "I'm not sure what Neanderthals will tell us," says Kent State's Lovejoy. "They're real late [in terms of human evolution]. And they represent, at best, a little environmental isolate in Europe. I can't imagine we're going to learn much about human evolution by studying them." Lovejoy is even more dismissive about claims that ancestors of chimps and humans interbred, arguing that using mutation rates in the genome to time evolutionary changes is extraordinarily imprecise...
...resolutions were formulated by the Greater Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal, a group of representatives from human rights and India-focused organizations. One resolution calls for the city’s retirement funds to divest from Dow. The other requested the city manager to assess whether the city uses Dow products. Kaveri Rajaraman, a third-year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said Bhopal, where she has relatives, is still severely polluted from the spill of heavier-than-air toxic gas. “This resolution will be much needed support for the disaster?...