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...support and gratitude of the hundreds of thousands of citizens attempting to piece together their shattered lives. At Mehdi High School in Beirut, now a temporary administrative center for refugees who lost homes in the war with Israel, Abdel Hussein Hodroj asks a bearded young official behind a desk for help. The young man doesn't work for the Lebanese government or a humanitarian group or a United Nations agency. He's a member of Hizballah, the militant Shi'ite Muslim group that fought Israeli forces to a draw during 34 days of conflict--and is emerging as the most...
...Through the wall-sized windows behind his slick, black desk, Ma overlooks steel-and-glass office towers that house similar companies, including an online-music outfit and a "virtual university" where colleges from around the country have conference centers and research labs. This small enclave of white-collar knowledge workers is a model the rest of Shenzhen must rapidly emulate if it is to continue to prosper, says Ma: "In Shenzhen, we really have to move faster than before, and take the right direction." His vision?and his sense of urgency?is shared by city officials, who have launched...
...professor kept spinning a coin and recording whether it came up heads or tails, according to Vaupel.When Vaupel finally asked Mosteller why, “he gently explained that it was more random to spin a coin than to flip a coin, because a coin spun on a desk would spin many more times than a flipped coin would turn over,” Vaupel said. Mosteller further explained that it was a penny made in 1942, and thus contained alloys other than copper because of the need for copper during the war. “He showed...
...webcam at least twice a day, and it allows us to approximate a home life. We can do "normal" things like have a meal together. She will sit down at the dining table with her laptop and webcam, and I will bring my plate to my work desk. Because of the four-hour time difference, I'm usually having a late lunch at her dinnertime. On special occasions - our wedding anniversary, my birthday last month - she will light a candle at her end, and I will play some appropriately mushy music on iTunes. (Hey, war correspondents can be romantic...
Unlawful Bag Dropping Crackdown Friday, July 28, 1:54 p.m. An officer was dispatched to a report of an individual dropping their belongings off at the front desk at 651 Huntington Avenue. When the individual was informed that their belongings could not be stored at the front desk, they stated that they did not care. An officer arrived on location and informed the individual, who was a Harvard affiliate, not to store their belongings at the front desk again...