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...EVEN MORE FROM SMUGGLING OIL. This is the oil he secretly sells outside U.N. supervision--and he pockets all the revenue. Late last month U.N. officials reported that Iraq was smuggling huge, 1 million--bbl. shiploads of oil through the gulf. But most of it is carried by small craft or aging scows guided by experienced, radio-equipped Iraqis and is later sold in Iran, other gulf countries and onto the world market...
Long before the shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry last month, NASA scientists had considered literally hundreds of problems that might threaten the craft's safety - and decided to launch anyway. Columbia had accumulated a thick sheaf of what the rocket business calls safety waivers - problems that NASA had noted but decided posed too small a risk to bother with. "That's a pretty deep stack; it really is," one member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board told TIME. "A lot of these [waivers] are legitimate - every launch is going to have them - but others are things...
...depends on the breadth and force of the student voice in the curricular review process. In a promising e-mail sent to students on Tuesday, Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71 solicited applications for eight of the 48 seats on the committees that will craft a new curriculum. The four 12-person committees will also include eight faculty members, one graduate student and one administrator each. Gross has reserved the final choice of students representatives for himself, with the council’s Student Affairs Committee responsible for paring down the initial pool...
...entire campaign to force Augusta National Golf Club into admitting female members is absurd. Augusta is a private club, and is thus free to craft whatever membership policies it chooses. The Staff’s shrill complaints are misguided and irritating: people should be free to associate with whomever they choose without obnoxious criticism from newspaper editors...
...Irish poet Samuel Beckett in 1961. The award, given to writers judged to have made a lasting contribution to world literature, led to a shower of invitations that ultimately brought Borges to the United States and Harvard, where he delivered the Norton Lectures (recently published in a collection, This Craft of Verse...