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...lite combat engineering unit, Yahalom, told the Israeli press. "We do not balk at any means to protect the lives of our soldiers.") When Israeli forces shelled a United Nations school that left more than 40 dead, the Israeli military initially did its best to back its claim (denied by local U.N. officials) that the school was being used by militants to fire at Israeli forces by releasing video footage from 2007 showing militants fighting from the compound...
...Wissner-Gross, a fellow at the University’s Center for Environment, found himself in the middle of an imbroglio this weekend when his study on the environmental impact of computing was used in an article by the Sunday Times—the British paper—to claim that two Google searches generate as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea.Wissner-Gross later denied that this claim was included in his study, which he said was about web-usage in general, not Google in particular.Google is combating the Sunday Times’ article...
...charter helps investors recover monies only from registered brokers and firms engaged in fraud. This is all good for the 8,000 who had registered or direct accounts with Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, a broker/dealer. In fact, right now, most are busy filling out their just arrived SIPC claim-recovery forms in hopes of getting back half a mil. See a brief history of Ponzi schemes...
...There was one rough patch disrupting Harvard’s day of smooth sailing, however. In the 1000-yard freestyle event, two of the Crimson’s top swimmers were disqualified for ending in the wrong lane. Meyer and senior Eric Lynch, who posted times good enough to claim the top-two spots in the event, were eliminated from scoring for this blunder.“That’s kind of a rookie mistake and slightly embarrassing,” Meyer said. “I just looked up the heat sheet and I was going to tell...
...that rival any cult star's. Two of the best closed up over the holidays. Depression Modern, 29, was a mecca for collectors of Deco furniture and artifacts; each Saturday morning, dozens of the faithful would gather outside Michael Smith's Lower Manhattan store, ready to rush in and claim his latest treasures. (I could name two TIME movie critics, one in New York, one in L.A., whose homes are little museums of Depression Modern pieces.) When a leap in rent shuttered this SoHo landmark, Smith retreated to his other boutique, Adelaide, in the West Village. (Disclosure: Mary Corliss...