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...Donohue says that in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, her dorm mates knew even less than she did. Hilscher and Donohue lived in the cluster of four rooms tucked behind the elevators, away from the main halls. They were called the "elevator girls." But their location meant that even fewer students knew what had taken place. When Molly first ran to Stack's room, she says she ran past girls in towels headed for the showers. A few students who did come to investigate the noises were too scared to try to find out what had actually happened...
...cluster of fellows did not need labs, according to its chair Salil P. Vadhan ’95, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science, but rather “needed a good environment for interaction and collaboration to have seminars and discuss research ideas.” Radcliffe planned for them to live together in Putnam House, an arrangement several cluster members described as ideal. Still other fellows were given funding to make trips back to their home labs. As a result, scientists, mathematicians, and engineers who are at the cutting edges of their fields found a place...
...demand that the government toughen its abortion laws. "A nation that kills its children won't survive!" read one banner, quoting the late Polish pontiff John Paul II. "Poland cannot kill its babies!" declared another. "Let the unborn see our Homeland." Not far away, in Constitution Square, a Stalinist cluster of 1950s social realism architecture, about 1,000 demonstrators mounted a counter-rally in favor of loosening Poland's laws: "Free women, free world," they shouted...
...logged into a GPS device, Ghaith and I walked carefully along a track winding through blossom-scented orange orchards at the bottom of a steep-sided brush-covered valley. Snakes and lizards basking in the hot sun slithered from beneath our feet. But we kept our eyes open for cluster bombs, which have since August caused 224 casualties among Lebanese civilians and mine-clearing crews, which had used red spray paint to mark the location of each bomblet...
HOPE IS A CLUSTER BOMB IN wartime, shredding peace of mind. An Iraqi mother hopes her children will be safe--but then she learns that bombers are placing children visibly in the backseat, as unwitting little decoys, so the car can clear the checkpoints before the driver blows it up, with the children still inside. A resident of Baghdad sees the markets reopen and hopes that a flood of fresh troops will bring a season of calm--but U.S. generals warn of a "squirting effect" that shifts the battle to the less guarded cities, so the blood just flows faster...