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...experience. After last year's Indian Ocean tsunami, the Yard sent officers to Thailand to help match information about British victims. Others traveled to New York City to observe mass casualty identification procedures after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. There is a protocol to such tasks. Standard international procedures begin by designating the mortuary site and forming an Identification Commission. In the London case, the commission is headed by Reid and the Westminster coroner, Paul Knapman, who led the inquest into a 1996 IRA bus bombing that killed the perpetrator; it also includes Metropolitan Police Service officers, forensic pathologists...
Going from Woodward and Bernstein to Potter and Weasley is taking the scenic route, but Newell felt he knew where the journey should begin and end. "First, if Harry is, in films 1 to 3, a hero, he's an accidental hero. He's somebody who simply finds himself in the eye of the storm each time," says Newell. "I thought Goblet was actually about Harry becoming Harry...
After midnight tonight, Gong faces a solid weekend of non-stop reading and preparing lists of cross-references with the earlier volumes. She hopes to begin the reading marathon on her walk back home from the Harvard Book Store. (She plans to carry a flashlight...
...another experiment, De Waal and his students reward two monkeys for a task by giving them cucumber. It's not a favorite food, but they happily go on doing the task anyway. Then the scientists begin giving one of the monkeys grapes--like caviar for a capuchin. At that point, the monkey that is still getting cucumber refuses to play. Says De Waal: "It's like me discovering my colleague, who works just as hard as I do, gets a salary that is twice the size of mine. I was perfectly happy before...
...Washington, CNOOC responded last week by trying to kick-start the approval process, asking the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), run by the U.S. Treasury Department, to begin its analysis of the bid. The only problem was, CFIUS, an interagency body that reviews mergers between foreign and American companies for potential U.S. national-security risks, gets to work only after a deal is done. It won't move until it is clear that CNOOC is going to win Unocal. Banking sources say Chevron may well wait until shortly before the Aug. 10 Unocal shareholders' meeting before...