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During Tuesday’s CME, the sun spewed a cloud of charged particles into space at a speed of 5 million m.p.h...
Before an audience of 200 schoolchildren and actors gaudily dressed as a cloud and a dog, the Harvard College Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented a check for $11,000 to the Cambridge Public Schools in a ceremony at the John M. Tobin School in Cambridge yesterday...
...where the U.N. has been made to symbolize peace, it is taboo in educated circles to reject the institution, even scoffed at as puerile or cowboy-ish. But the blind homage paid to the world body on this, the organization’s birthday, should not cloud the fact that the U.N., by virtue of its membership’s extremely divergent interests, is an impotent organization, powerless to truly halt affronts to human rights...
...every silver lining has a cloud. The U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council is staunchly opposed to the deployment of the Turks, on the grounds that all of Iraq's neighbors have their own agendas - indeed, Turkish officials have made no bones about the fact that their decision to send troops, which cuts against the tide of Turkish public opinion, is based primarily on Turkey's desire to have a hand in shaping post-Saddam Iraq. Although U.S. administrator Paul Bremer has sought to assuage the fears of the IGC - particularly its Kurdish members, who see the Turks as threatening their...
...campaign - was more a comment on the world of commerce than an attempt to participate in it. And when they started making clothes, it was to attract attention rather than sales. In 1998 they launched the Atomic Bomb collection, featuring shirts stuffed with helium balloons to mimic a mushroom cloud. After that came the Babushka collection, a single model wearing nine layers of beaded clothing. "We decided we were too much picked up by the art world, so we did couture," says Horsting. "It was a good way to get our name out," says Snoeren. The fashion press began...