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...Federal Civil Defense Administration released an educational film called “Duck and Cover.” It featured an animated turtle named Bert, who demonstrated how children should protect themselves in the face of a nuclear attack. The thesis of the movie was something like a “nuclear attack might happen at any moment, so we should all be prepared.” At the same time, videos were made by various military agencies showing the structural impact of nuclear bomb blasts; these movies suggest that ducking and covering would not, in fact, have been...
Until 1865, the entire Massachusetts state senate sat as ex officio members of the Board of Overseers. But after the end of the Civil War, alumni elected the Board members. Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, who later served as Harvard’s president, described that change as a “happy liberation” of the University from state control...
Even if the Overseers don’t monitor the University as closely today as they did in the pre-Civil War era, members of the Board weren’t quite taken aback by Summers’ departure...
...Aviation Administration?s refusal to upgrade Venezuela?s air safety ranking, which was downgraded by the FAA a decade ago and prevents Venezuelan airlines from expanding their own number of flights to and from the U.S. Venezuela says it has exhausted "all conciliatory avenues" with the FAA. Its National Civil Aviation Institute insists it has completed internationally-certified improvements that warrant the U.S. upgrade and claims the Bush Administration is ignoring an international air accord, signed by both countries, that guarantees "principals of equality" in air service. But the FAA says that Venezuela has yet to meet the standards...
...January: A letter found in the possession of a captured al-Qaeda operative details Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's ambitions to provoke Shi'ites and start a civil war in Iraq...