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...meeting on Friday, directors of FAS centers—such as the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs—met with FAS Dean Michael D. Smith to review FAS budgeting policy implemented last spring, at the height of the University’s fiscal woes...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Funding Policy To Steer Centers | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Updated: Feb. 27, 2010. Just before 6 p.m. eastern time or about 1 p.m. in Hawaii, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center canceled the tsunami alert for the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Chile's Quake, Hawaii Braces for Tsunami | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...They’re pretty contemporary, very much like electronica, very new age, with Eastern elements,” said Joselyn A. Lai ’13, an Education/Political Co-Chair for the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, which hosted the performance...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Project Cultural Restoration | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...modern world, El Niño is a change in wind patterns and ocean currents that occurs every few years, bringing warmer water to the normally cool eastern Pacific; the result is major changes in storms and other weather effects, along with a temporary spike in global temperature. El Niño happened in 1998, for example, so if you were to take that year as a starting point for tracking global temperatures, you'd find that the following decade didn't see a lot of warming by comparison. (This is the origin of the myth that global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Can Hurricanes Cause Climate Change? | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

Washington's newfound friendship with Islamabad could still fray over one particularly vicious Afghan clan. The NATO forces' most dangerous adversaries are the Haqqanis, who have sworn loyalty to Omar while operating semi-independently in the eastern Afghan provinces and also across the border in Pakistan. Since the days of the jihad against the Soviets, Pakistani spy service the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has kept close ties with the Haqqanis. Now the Pakistanis are resisting demands by Washington to clear the Haqqanis out of their lair in the Pakistani territory of North Waziristan. Pakistani officials insist they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was the Taliban's Captured No. 2 on the Outs with Mullah Omar? | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

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