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...by-product of the Decade has been an explosion in research on women. The numbers and graphs not only visibly describe change, but also have helped transform attitudes. "There were such appalling and unexpected facts," said Vina Mazumdar, director of the Center for Women's Development Studies in New Delhi. "The picture was so against the professed attitude of our political system...
Fourteen more freshmen than last year received assignments in the Quad this morning, the by-product of next year’s planned displacement of 56 Lowell House and Adams House residents out of Claverly Hall, according to the Office of the Dean of the College...
...prestigious hospital in Austria presented evidence last Saturday that the Ukrainian opposition leader--just like that country's recent election--had been poisoned. Tests done during his third trip to Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus clinic showed that the presidential candidate's blood contained such high levels of dioxin--a toxic by-product of the manufacture of certain disinfectants and herbicides, and an ingredient in Agent Orange--that it was difficult to get an accurate measurement. "The needle was literally off the charts," Rudolfinerhaus director Dr. Michael Zimpfer told TIME, though doctors say his bodily functions are returning to normal...
...civilian death toll can be routinely dismissed as an unfortunate by-product of war, an even more uncomfortable aspect for the U.S. of the Lancet study is the conclusion that the majority of the violent deaths had been caused not by terror attacks, but by U.S. air strikes. The use of air power in urban areas has become a routine part of the counterinsurgency effort in Iraq, and such attacks are typically reported as "air strikes against rebel positions." But civilian casualties are pretty much inevitable when air power is used in cities, despite the best intentions and technological capabilities...
...this year, far surpassing the annual average of 2.6 and the postwar record of six storms in both 1990 and 1993. The first nine killed 102 people and caused $6.7 billion worth of damage, according to Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki. Some meteorologists say the phenomenon is an inevitable by-product of global warming; others assert that the 10 storms were mere coincidence. Whatever the reason, Japan's season of the typhoon may not be over. Typhoon No. 24, known as Nock-ten, was gathering strength in the South Pacific late last week?and heading North...