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...search zone of 1,800 square nautical miles between Carnarvon and Geraldton. After weathering technical problems and a cyclone, on March 12 it transmitted the startling news: the Kormoran had been found. Four days later, the Sydney was located. Graham's fellow Foundation director Glenys McDonald, who was on board, said: "I went up to the back deck and leaned over the railing and cried and gave thanks...
Some of these electronic bulletin boards, known as hospitality-exchange sites, hook up travelers with locals who don't mind having someone stay in an extra room, crash on an empty couch or even pitch a tent in the yard. Many allow people to take turns hosting one another in their homes. And others arrange work for temporary room and board. A few charge nominal fees, but most are free. "What used to be a fringe hobby for a few travelers is becoming a mainstream phenomenon," says Daniel Hoffer, co-founder of Couch Surfing, which has nearly 470,000 users...
...higher education has expanded across the board, the popularity of the liberal arts—which has no direct professional application, save in academia—has decreased, particularly since so many undergraduates seek lucrative jobs in finance, law, and medicine. According to English professor Louis Menand, who co-chaired the task force to redesign Harvard’s general education requirements, this trend of decreasing interest in non-applied fields is not new. “The percentage of bachelor’s degrees in the liberal arts against all bachelor’s degrees that are given every...
...Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. He notes that while the majority of justices "expressed skepticism" about D.C.'s gun laws, "there certainly did not appear to be a majority for establishing a constitutional standard that would call into question the validity of gun control laws across the board." The district's gun ban is certainly under fire. Whether it will suffer a fatal blow or a flesh wound remains to be seen...
...squabbling comes as the U.S. central bank chief, Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, is scrambling to shore up shaky financial markets. Among other actions, Bernanke this week helped prevent the bankruptcy of a major brokerage house, Bear Stearns, and cut U.S. interest rates 0.75 of a percentage point to try to keep America from slipping into recession. But in Japan, there's little central bank activity, despite the threat of recession, a sliding stock market, and the decline of the dollar to its lowest level against the yen in 13 years. "At this moment the situation is very...