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...door bell rang at 31 Willow Way, Woking, a commuter town near London that epitomizes southern England's suburban landscape. Karen Reed, a 33-year-old geophysicist who analyzed seismic data for a living, was enjoying a glass of white wine with a friend when they heard a man's muffled voice through the window. "Have you ordered a pizza?" Karen opened the door - whereupon the pizza deliverer drew a 0.38 pistol and shot her several times in the head with calm deliberation. The killer then ran back to the car and drove...
...secure, safe, and reliable source of energy to power the world,” may come as a surprise, the choice was an intentional effort by the Harvard University Center of the Environment (HUCE) to address all facets of this challenge.“We’ve heard from a variety of perspectives,” said Daniel P. Schrag, an earth and planetary sciences professor and the director of HUCE, who introduced Cischke. “But nowhere is energy more immediate to our awareness than in the automobiles we drive.”This emphasis on collaboration...
...told you can pay for that service,” he said of moving up the Google rankings, before adding that he had heard links were also a factor in a site’s position among the Google search results...
Monday yielded one clear clue when Chinese media carried stories on the meeting the previous day between representatives of the Dalai Lama and envoys from Beijing. Although the talks have been going on since 2002, this was the first time the Chinese public had heard about them, a sign for many analysts that Beijing was softening its previously hardline stance regarding the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. It was also noted that President Hu Jintao had said he expected "positive results" from the talks, another first. Other analyses dwelled on the language used in the official media reports, some of which...
...final weekend before the Indiana and North Carolina contests, had a determinedly new feel - low-key, intimate, a series of Kodak moments. Or maybe it was Obama's way of trying to tell Hoosiers that he's not all that different than they are, whatever they might have heard about his controversial former pastor or the question of whether he wears an American flag on his lapel. In Indiana, there were two picnics, a roller-skating party, a game of pickup basketball. His daughters, 9-year-old Malia and 6-year-old Sasha, were on the campaign trail with Obama...