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...library, named after New York banker George F. Baker, who provided the original $5 million to construct the library, was closed to make way for major renovations...

Author: By Alexander H. Greeley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Facelift, Baker Reopens for Business | 9/22/2005 | See Source »

...Korea then accused the U.S. of failing to live up to its end of the agreement, withdrew from international protocols and began to reprocess nuclear material in earnest. It's that material, from plutonium rods previously been under international supervision, which North Korea is believed to have used to construct its still-untested nuclear arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Agreement on Nukes | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...wearing Mubarak T-shirts, caps and "Mubarak 2005" buttons - young men who as often as not were in it for the free gear or the meal they were provided. Mubarak sought to make the issue of reform his own: Besides the usual promises, to create 4.5 million new jobs, construct 500,000 new homes and double salaries for government employees, his platform, available in Arabic and English, calls for an array of constitutional and legislative reforms that would decrease his powers and increase those of the cabinet and parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy Slowly Comes to Egypt | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

Creating a New Construct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figuring the Future: Numbers Made Real | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...human indignity" 404 Number of Moroccan prisoners of war, captives from the 30-year conflict over Western Sahara, released from Algeria last week 17 Average number of years the POWs were held, the longest known internment of soldiers in modern history 15 million Number of Popsicle sticks used to construct the Mjollnir, a 15-m replica of a Viking vessel that will launch from Amsterdam next year in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean 67% Percentage of American workers who intend to keep working past retirement age, according to a Rutgers University survey 4,628 Number of pending bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/22/2005 | See Source »

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