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With less than three minutes gone in the final period, Quinnipiac sophomore Yuri Bouharevich poked a Greg Holt rebound past Harvard junior netminder Kyle Richter to bring the Bobcats within...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ends Winless Streak With Victory Over League-Leading Quinnipiac | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...them can figure out what that would accomplish," says Douglas Laird, president of the international aviation-security consulting firm Laird & Associates and former security director for Northwest Airlines. A lengthy transatlantic flight would provide ample opportunity to set up and detonate an explosive device; limiting passengers' movements in the final 60 minutes, Laird says, is "just a symbolic gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Security Rules: Are We Any Safer? | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...American officials either missed all these warnings or failed to act on them. Not until Northwest Flight 253 was beginning its final descent into Detroit, at about 11:40 Christmas morning, did a handful of passengers step in to do what all the early-warning systems and security personnel could not: stop a terrorist trying to detonate a bomb on a plane on the quietest morning of the year. Just as the cabin crew strapped in for landing, an explosion - it sounded like a firecracker - came from the left side of the fuselage just over the wing. Alain Ghonda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We Can Learn from Flight 253 | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...Sunday figures place Avatar's three-day take at $75 million - an increase from the $73 million total announced this time last weekend, but a shade less than the actual $77 million in the final figures released Monday. So things may still change, depending on how many Sunday tickets Avatar sells. When the three-day tally is complete, the movie may have beaten The Dark Knight for the all-time best gross on a second weekend. It has now taken in $212.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, and another $400 million or so abroad. Worldwide, after just 10 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Box Office: Avatar Beats Sherlock and Alvin | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...lives. Democrats, meanwhile, struggled to sell a pricey overhaul amid a steep economic slump. Despite the poisonous debate, the pro-reform camp notched victories. On Nov. 7, the House passed a sweeping bill by a slim, five-vote margin. With Senators still haggling over their $848 billion measure, a final vote may be pushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

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