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Recently, a Massachusetts school district evacuated a school bus full of 10-year-olds after a stray peanut was found on the floor...
...these safeguards seem a little, well, nuts? Harvard professor Dr. Nicholas Christakis thinks so. One of Christakis' children attends school in the district that ordered the bus evacuation, and the episode prompted the physician and social scientist - best known for his work on the social "contagiousness" of characteristics such as obesity and happiness - to write a commentary, published in the British Medical Journal, questioning whether these so-called precautions are snowballing into something more like a societal hysteria...
...highway, a road toward the northern tip of the teardrop-shaped island and one of the main supply routes into Mullaitivu, the thick jungle areas where the LTTE is believed to base its operations. Symbolically, Kilinochchi is more important. The 463 square mile (1,200 sq. km.) district it governs has been under LTTE control for more than 10 years, ever since the Sri Lankan Army lost a battle known as Operation Unceasing Waves in September...
...much fewer than last year but still average one a day, Vermeesch says. Now, under the security agreement, U.S. forces can no longer carry out a raid, search, cordon or even a patrol without their Iraqi counterparts. In the past two weeks, four minor operations in Vermeesch's district had to be canceled simply because the Iraqi forces weren't ready...
...pride in their motherland's artistic traditions - will officially inaugurate a five-story tower block in the planning for well over two decades. Since its foundation in 1981, the TFA has been the largest cultural force among the derelict apartment blocks and small businesses of Brickfields, K.L.'s Indian district. Its new center is set to become the most tangible cultural achievement yet of the estimated 2 million Indians whose ancestors went to Malaysia mostly as indentured laborers...