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...lost. The river crossing wasn't where he thought it was. At 3:30 a.m., at -15?C and 4,185 meters above sea level, this wore our patience as thin as the available oxygen. So he told us to shine our headlamps on the river, and in the halogen glare pointed out a perilous course across black rocks. I teetered giddily at the last boulder, making a leap for the bank and landing in supine embarrassment...
Evangelical leaders have declared that support for Israel has moved to the very top of their agenda. Christian groups are spending millions on everything from armored school buses for Israeli children to halogen lights for the army's emergency-rescue service. There are e-mail chains, prayer ministries and grassroots efforts to get the word out that the U.S. must stand united with its ally in the war on terror...
...such effort, started in 1999, replaced popular but inefficient halogen floor lamps in undergraduate roomswith a more economical florescent model, developed by engineering student Linsey C. Marr ’96 for her senior thesis...
...Palmer-Dixon, Walsh personally bought a halogen lamp to increase the lighting inside the building, and the Harvard operations staff laid down a carpet atop the courts, in addition to setting up the two cages...
...qualms over Guantanamo. Columnist Alice Thomson agrees with shackling and even hooding and drugging the prisoners en route - "al Qaeda doesn't have a great reputation when it comes to aircraft. But I mind the shark cages, with their concrete floors open to the elements and the 24-hour halogen flood lights, left near mosquito-infested swamps, so the prisoners can catch malaria when some already have tuberculosis." She argues that this "vindictive" prison regime undermines the morality of what has been achieved in Afghanistan...