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Bristling at a censure issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency over its failure to comply with weapons inspectors, Iran vowed to significantly expand its controversial nuclear program by constructing 10 large facilities capable of generating 20,000 MW of electricity and 250 to 300 tons of nuclear fuel annually. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also stirred up concerns by declaring that Iran would move to enrich uranium to a far higher level of purity than it does now. Experts mostly dismissed the expansion plan as bluster, arguing that Iran lacks the industrial infrastructure to meet its ambitious targets. The country...
...program’s mission is to improve arts education and build community in the Allston Brighton area. It is part of the University’s larger effort to aid these communities as it works to expand into them...
Meanwhile, Randy J. Miller '13 made an iPhone app that contains a course catalog, a map of Harvard buildings, and a collection of Harvard-related RSS feeds. It still has bugs, he says, but he's hoping to work on it over J-term and expand it to include ShuttleBoy, a Harvard directory, a list of WiFi spots, and a way to check your Crimson cash. Whether that catalog app will be ready in time for spring shopping period, though, is doubtful, but, he adds, it's not his fault...
...Americans. Headley is also charged with plotting terrorist attacks against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, whose 2005 publication of controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad sparked protests throughout the Muslim world. The 12 criminal counts, including six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India, expand the government's case against Headley and drive home the unsettling idea that the U.S. can no longer rely on its borders to keep extremism out. (See pictures of Mumbai one year after the attacks...
...final-status issues, but the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to even discuss Jerusalem, while the Palestinian side refuses to talk until Israel halts all settlement construction, including any construction in East Jerusalem. Amid the stalemate, private Israeli groups like Elad are continuing their efforts to expand Jewish settlements in Arab neighborhoods, some with the goal of preventing any Israeli government from giving up East Jerusalem in a final peace deal.(See TIME's photo-essay "The Lemon Tree...