Word: celling
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...ruling class' isolation stands in contrast to the increased connectivity of the Burmese people. Technology has revolutionized dissent. Cell phones can now be rented for $50 a month, and a click of a button sends pictures of protests to the outside world. Aung Zaw, an exiled student activist who edits the Irrawaddy, a Thailand-based publication that covers Burmese affairs, recalls how it took nearly a month for word of student protests in the early 1990s to reach Thailand. "Now we get information about protests almost instantly," he says, "and it's then sent back to people in Burma...
...interested in molecular cell biology. Back home in India, Rajarshi’s only cartooning experience was doodling in class. He sent in a cartoon poking fun at the Financial Aid Office as part of his application and thoroughly regretted it for the next three months. Now a freshman in Hurlbut, he wonders whether that’s the reason he’s here. You can check out his cartoons every Friday...
...announcement coincided with significant progress by Harvard in its steps to break ground on its first project in Allston—a long-awaited 500,000-square-foot science complex. In June, the University filed its draft impact report for the project, slated to house the Harvard Stem Cell Initiative, with the Boston agency that oversees development projects. The University is expecting to receive approval by the agency, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, in early October...
...Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit found that it was an innocuous device and we took her into custody,” Pare said according to MIT’s student paper The Tech. “Thankfully, because she followed instructions as was required, she ended up in a cell as opposed to the morgue. Had she not followed instructions, deadly force may have been used.” At the time of her arrest, Simpson was also holding play-doh, which authorities mistook for explosives. According to The Tech, she was at the airport to meet her boyfriend Tim Anderson...
...predator laws. In 2005, Jeffs was indicted for sex crimes in Arizona and Utah and became a fugitive. A year later, he was on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list until his arrest in August 2006 in Las Vegas. Police found $53,000 in cash as well as cell phones, wigs and laptops. When he appeared at preliminary hearings, he seemed even more gaunt than before. He was reported to have gone for days without food or water and knelt so long in prayer that he got ulcers on his knees...