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...Almost instantly, a distant wail of sirens came from all directions, even as people poured from the building, even as a second plane bore down on lower Manhattan. Louis Garcia was among the first medics on the scene. "There were people running over to us burnt from head to toe. Their hair was burned off. There were compound fractures, arms and legs sticking out of the skin. One guy had no hair left on his head." Of the six patients in his first ambulance run, two died on the way to St. Vincent's Hospital...
Even if we assume that government officials and policy makers are more knowledgeable than the average American, and that they are able to identify Asian nations and the ocean that separates North America from Asia by name, the United States faces serious problems in the not distant future. Although we may know facts, statistics, and names, it is difficult for Americans to understand the different value systems, codes of moral conduct, priorities and ways of thinking that exist in Asia, which often conflict with...
Relocation of schools currently residing in Cambridge is a distinct, albeit distant, possibility. Summers cautioned the schools that further development in Cambridge—such as expansion of the law school— could not proceed without at least consideration of what that development would mean under various scenarios for Allston...
...Israel's defense structure in response to the intifadeh. One proposal would see the formation of something like a citizens' army--locally based reserve units, manned by townspeople who would quickly counter the threat of Palestinian guerrilla incursions inside Israel. At present, reserve soldiers report to units in bases distant from their homes. In the event of a war, small guerrilla attacks by Palestinians in the center of Israel, where the country is just eight miles wide, could prevent many soldiers from reaching their units for days. As the intifadeh rolls on, the Palestinian fighters who shoot guns and mortars...
...common aspect of planet formation, and these big impacts might go a long way toward explaining the puzzling diversity observed among planets." That diversity was emphasized last week when astronomers using the University of California's Lick telescope reported the discovery of two planets in orbit around a distant star. Unlike all previously discovered extra-solar planets, which have highly elliptical orbits, these two were moving in nearly circular paths. Alas, even the best telescopes are not sensitive enough to detect any extra-solar moons...