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...inside undisputed Georgian territory. Calling the move "extremely alarming," the Ministry said the incident - which allegedly happened on Sunday near the village of Kveshi, between the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali and Gori, Georgia's second largest city - was an "attempt by the Russian occupants to penetrate into the depth of Georgian territory." (See pictures of the war in Georgia...
...emotional depth does not get in the way of his writing style. His recently acquired English is textured like Nabokov’s, and he likes to prick the imagination with unexpected words and fantastic metaphors. His transition from Spanish to English has improbably recreated the early twentieth-century’s revolution in consciousness—he writes unpunctuated streams to rival James Joyce. When I teach him grammar, I provide dashes and colons to preserve his extraordinary phrasing...
...Alpern said that Hafler's decision to leave for Yale would likely not hurt Harvard's neurology program significantly, given its depth of researchers, but noted that the appointment would be a "major improvement" for Yale's department. He also said that Harvard and Yale have traditionally collaborated in research, despite their friendly competition, and that Harvard faculty had helped Yale build its cancer center...
...Harvard is very strong in neurology and has a lot of depth. [Halper's departure] is no doubt a loss, but it's not a catastrophic loss," Alpern said. "We very much want to grow our clinical practice, and Harvard already has a much larger clinical practice in neurology than we do, so this will be an opportunity for us to really expand on that...
...photos of the same scene from different angles. This is where the 3-D magic originates. When two slightly different images are presented discretely to the right and left eyes of a viewer, that person's brain combines them into a single image, resulting in a stereoscopic illusion of depth. (See the Gadgets of the year...