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Duaa had no way of knowing her plaything was a live cluster submunition, the lethal leftover sprinkled by U.S. warplanes and artillery. The Americans dropped some 1,500 cluster bombs, which are continuing their deadly work among innocents all over Iraq. Unlike GPS-or laser-guided "smart" bombs delivered to, say, a tank or other specific target, cluster bombs come packaged in warheads that split in midair and rain as many as hundreds of grenade-like bomblets. They are effective against dispersed troops, but the bomblets generally cannot be targeted individually. And not all the devices explode on impact. Some...
...Corporation’s approval of LISE may also speak to broader University plans: high-powered University committees are curently considering relocating either FAS science or a cluster of graduate schools to the University’s recently-acquired land across the river in Allston...
...Looking around for an escape route, I noticed a second pile of artillery shells, 300 feet off to my left. I also spotted another, a smaller cluster - mostly mortar shells. The nearest cover was the walled compound of a domed church, along a narrow alleyway some 60 feet behind...
...Hong Kong's health officials suspect the superspreader who may have brought SARS to Amoy Gardens is a man with a history of kidney disease. After being treated for influenza at the Prince of Wales Hospital?site of the second major cluster of SARS cases in Hong Kong after the Metropole Hotel?the man visited his brother, who lived on the 12th floor of Block E in Amoy Gardens. During his four visits to the housing complex, the man, who also suffered from diarrhea, might have spread the virus through his bodily waste. (Scientists believe the virus may be present...
...Despite limited censorship, producers know where the red lines are. Segments begin with violin-backed montages of injured Iraqi children followed by the words "Give Peace a Chance." Iraqi claims that the U.S. is dropping cluster bombs on civilian targets are repeated without skepticism, and there has been no mention of Saddam's past use of chemical weapons or his invasions into Iran and Kuwait. And the government has banned coverage of an even bigger story for China-the spread of a deadly new disease, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Reporters are setting the bar higher, but some news is still...