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...architectural centerpiece of the Games would get to wear its Santiago-Calatrava-designed cap or stand roofless under the Mediterranean sun - and whether security experts and television crews could move into the stadium in time to complete their preparations. Above all, last week's test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof was already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail in a building program plagued by chronic delays and charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister...
...applicant for the summer position, who decided not to pursue the job, was told in an e-mail that the position would pay $8,000. Hughes refused to confirm that figure...
Candidates considered earlier this year—Randy Schekman from the University of California at Berkeley and Gerald F. Joyce, from the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, Calif.—would neither confirm nor deny that they were offered the position. Yet both expressed strong attachment to their laboratories at home, and Schenkman a belief in the value of public education...
With summer just around the corner, the Alpine hills will soon be alive with the sound of whooping and squealing as novice paragliders go over the edge for the first time. As an avid paraglider, I can confirm that soaring high over hills and rooftops, carried only by the wind, is one of the most exhilarating, thrilling and uplifting experiences you can have. And almost anyone can do it. You don't have to be a world-class athlete: physical conditioning is less important than caution and alertness. Patience helps, too. Before you can venture solo, you will need...
...interview yesterday evening, Summers said he would neither confirm nor deny that the center will remain in existence next academic year...