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...advocate of lowering the drinking age. “Alcohol itself is neutral. The abuse of alcohol is what needs to be taken care of,” he added. Alcohol policy at the College made headlines last year when the Undergraduate Council party grant system came under fire from the administration led by David R. Pilbeam, then serving as interim dean of the College. Pilbeam also instituted a ban on hard liquor at House events, and new guidelines regulating the funding and alcohol consumption at student group parties, which led some students to express discontent about the College?...
...caliber gun and improved scope could employ "fire and forget" technologies including "fin-stabilized projectiles, spin-stabilized projectiles, internal and/or external aero-actuation control methods, projectile guidance technologies, tamper proofing, small stable power supplies, and advanced sighting, optical resolution and clarity technologies." In other words, bullets that, once fired at a specific target, fly themselves into it by changing shape. The new gun should be no heavier than the combined 46-lb. weight of the current $11,500 M107 sniper rifle and all its associated gear (including ammo, tripod, scope and slide rules for target calculations). (See pictures...
When Kim Jong Il and the North Korean government get on a roll, they really get on a roll. On April 5, Pyongyang fired a missile disguised as a satellite directly over Japan and into the Pacific, in direct contravention of a 2006 U.N. resolution forbidding the North's ballistic missile program. Then, in a life-imitates-art moment, the U.N. Security Council issued what amounted to a strongly worded letter straight out of Team America: World Police condemning the missile test. The North, in response, called this "an unbearable insult," and said it would again fire up its reactor...
...also can't comfort Republicans that Obama's approval ratings remain high. The President was so popular during the first month of his Administration that the GOP didn't directly criticize him, saving their fire for the softer targets of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...expected to report a loss of $4.9 billion when it announces its 2009 results on May 8. Last week, Sharp Corp., too, slashed its outlook for its fiscal year ending March 31, to a net loss of $1.29 billion. (Read "Sony's Woes: Japan's Iconic Brands Under Fire...