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...University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring four short outdoor talks each semester, consisting of lectures that are 60 seconds each, to give professors an opportunity to showcase their research. With only a minute to talk, maybe these professors will have to start speaking as fast as high school CX debaters (start...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...went from house to house and went through a list of symptoms for TB,” she said. “If they were suffering from a lot of the symptoms, we would give them a test and find out two days later if they were positive...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Testing for Tuberculosis in The Slums of New Dehli | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

Duvall, Michael • unawareness of that cameras were capturing boastful descriptions by of simultaneous sexual escapades with two female lobbyists ("So, I am getting into spanking her. Yeah, I like it," to give just one printable example) leads to apology by ("I deeply regret the comments I made in what I believed to be a private conversation"), then to resignation by from the California Assembly (where, of course, family values had been staunchly espoused by) and then, since the law might look askance at trading votes for sex, to a ridiculous denial by ("My decision to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...unity government never materialized. The two sides agreed on a formula for dividing Cabinet seats - 15 for the majority, 10 for the minority and 5 to be appointed by President Michel Suleiman (widely considered to be neutral) - that would give the opposition a stake in major decisions but not the veto power it had demanded during the crisis. But when the Cabinet was submitted to the President for approval, the opposition balked. Reports in Lebanon suggest the reason for the breakdown is that Michel Aoun, the leader of a Christian party allied with Hizballah, is unhappy that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakdown in Lebanon: A New Round of Brinkmanship | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...sovereignty, by opening a Syrian embassy in Beirut. (Damascus has traditionally viewed Lebanon as a Syrian province turned into a separate country by European colonial powers.) And it has made some effort to stem the flow of militants across the Syrian border into Iraq. Still, Syria appears wary of giving away too much and is especially wary of U.S. demands that it give up its strategic alliances with Iran, Hizballah and Hamas. Syria's fears that breaking from its allies in search of a separate peace deal will cost it leverage needed to achieve its primary goals of recovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakdown in Lebanon: A New Round of Brinkmanship | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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