Word: compartmentation
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But the city has to be careful, after the initial euphoria of having survived, not to bask in continuous self-congratulation. Traveling every day in the Bombay locals is a form of slow-motion terror; people commute in conditions (500 to a compartment) that would be illegal for the transport...
NASA is hoping to shave off the last two of its planned 17 upcoming shuttle flights by encouraging private industry to develop a commercial short-hop space vehicle to ferry astronauts and supplies to and from the space station. Then, to replace the shuttle, NASA is planning a new-generation...
Rahm Emanuel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has been calling friends in recent weeks and saying things like "I'm worried. I think expectations are too high." Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, a Florida Democrat who is working closely with Emanuel on the election effort, said she tries to...
The influx is so great, the invaders seemingly trip over one another as they walk through the old copper-mining town turned artist colony of Bisbee (pop. 6,000), five miles from the border. Having eluded the U.S. border patrol, they arrive in small groups of three or four, larger...
This ancient favorite is quickly becoming part of the “fossil record” of Harvard undergraduate course history. The course is being offered for the fourth time this spring, according to Professor of Biology and Geology Charles R. Marshall, who wrote in an e-mail that the...