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...rebels killed 17 Turkish soldiers and reignited the long-simmering feud between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish government. The nation retaliated with air strikes against PKK targets, and on Oct. 8 Turkey's parliament voted for a one-year extension of its mandate to launch cross-border military operations against Kurdish rebels in Iraq...
...have had that chance at least once. Lumen Eclipse, the public art project responsible for the festival, held the event on the newly constructed Palmer Street on Oct. 4. Over the course of four hours, audience members watched band Pants Yell!, sampled free appetizers from the Border Café, and, of course, watched 100 films. The catch? Each film was at most one minute in length. Although the format lent itself to films that were more experimental than the average movie, they proved to be fairly similar to what the audience was used to watching. After all, videos of this...
...address the broader crisis now that the country-by-country approach appears to be failing. Gros recommends a common European scheme to shore up capital of distressed banks and the establishment of a "clear center of joint responsibility for the supervision and liquidity support of cross-border European banks," which he says should be housed in the European Central Bank. (At present, the chief tool available to the ECB is lowering interest rates...
It’s rare for physics to make the news, but somehow the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator run by the CERN laboratory on the Franco-Swiss border, became a bona-fide celebrity. There hasn’t been a tube this famous since the London subway. The collider’s renown is likely because most of the news about it has been bizarre: The Wall Street Journal ran an article about physicists there studying with a comedy coach to help them think creatively. A rap about the collider reached three million views on YouTube. Rumors...
Despite the air of normality that nearly brought Yuri to tears at some points--like when we had our morning coffee outdoors in a crowded back alley during a stop in Amarah, capital of the restless border province of Maysan--the trip at times was undeniably tense. Our nerves frayed when traffic jams caused by U.S. military convoys brought us to hour-long standstills, and when an anonymous group of men pulled up to the gates of our Basra hotel late at night--journalists have been kidnapped from hotels in Basra...