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...solar output to changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis--and generally dismissed. Now two scientists, writing in the Journal of Geophysical Research, have proposed a novel idea: the possibility that our planet was once encircled by a huge, Saturn-like ring created by a glancing blow from an asteroid...
Skeptics on the school committee also worry that merging so many schools at one time would deal a lethal blow to the city’s precarious controlled choice plan, a system that lets parents choose where their children go to school so long as diversity at each school stays within a set of racial and socioeconomic quotas...
Mohammed Rashud Ashraf is trapped deep inside enemy territory, and he's about to blow his cover. A mob of flag-waving Sri Lankans, dancing to the hypnotic beat of bongo drums, has surrounded him. Undaunted, Rashud rises from his seat, his country's colors proudly displayed on his T-shirt, and stands defiant. "Pakistan is the greatest," he screams...
When the 10,107 fans at Harvard Stadium watched Crimson quarterback Neil Rose sit on the field after a blow to the head in the third quarter, they saw something that Harvard players and coaches had witnessed enough of during preseason practice...
...given that the hijackers of Sept. 11 were educated, middle-class residents of first-world countries, and that the vast majority of the “have-nots,” like those in non-Arab Africa, East and South Asia, and South America, have no special desire to blow us up), Kilfoyle declares that Europeans “look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst [the American] administration appears set on a unilateral approach...” He doesn’t go on to say exactly why this is a problem, but one guesses...