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While active residents are often the ones who act to halt Harvard development, local officials sometimes use Harvard as a political target—attacks that Harvard seems incapable of preventing or dealing with effectively...
...most spectacular corporate crack-up in recent memory, consumers hardly knew whom to trust or root for last week. First, Bridgestone/Firestone CEO John Lampe brought the tiremaker's 95-year-old business with Ford Motor Co. to a screeching halt over what Lampe called "significant concerns" about the safety of the Ford Explorer. One day later, Ford said it would replace 13 million Firestone Wilderness AT tires-mounted mainly on Explorers-that were excluded from Firestone's sweeping 6.5 million tire recall last August. Firestone admitted that those tires were no good but maintains that everything else on the road...
...pair of laser beams that rendered it transparent - into which the light can enter without being absorbed. Instead, the first beam leaves its mark on the gas particles while the second beam is slowly turned down by the physicists. As that happens, the first beam grinds to a halt - and goes dark...
...cleanup costs at around $1 billion, a laughable figure in near-bankrupt Indonesia. And that assumes environment officials could get into the site. Victor Malonda, who heads the district mining office, recounts how he took 120 policemen and soldiers to the site a year ago to try to halt the mining. "We were chased away," he says despairingly. "They had samurai swords. We had to run for our lives...
...IRAQ Rejects U.N. Plan Baghdad threatened to halt oil supplies to Jordan and Turkey if they agreed to a U.N. plan to replace sanctions on Iraq with tighter border controls. A British-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution to be debated this week proposes the end of all sanctions on exports to Iraq with the exception of weapons-related materials. Under the so-called "smart" sanctions plan, Iraq's illicit oil exports to its neighbors would be brought into a U.N.-controlled oil-for-food account. The move to ease sanctions on civilian goods was partly in response to pressure from...