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...detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material into a critical mass--is akin to that of classic devices like Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. "Because of the size and weight and the power source going into it and height-of-burst requirements," says the diplomat, Western experts have concluded that the design "is only intended to contain a nuclear weapon. There's no other munition which would work." A report issued last week by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says Iranian officials have dismissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iranian Bombshell? | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...make a rap CD that his own website touted as a seminal event in musical history. But he was frequently absent from Cambridge, and had published very little scholarly work. Many thought Summers’ request that West stay at home for a bit and write to be the height of impertinence. At the time it seemed to me that this was just telling the emperor to go buy some clothes: I make a princely $85,000 after a dozen years here, and teach and publish quite a lot, really...

Author: By James R Russell | Title: O Captain! My Captain! | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...pragmatic; they will adjust. I'm optimistic. But unless you talk about it, you can't solve the problem. People are saying things about these sorts of issues now that they wouldn't have been game to five years ago. They would have been jumped on from a great height and told they were bigoted and prejudiced and that multicultralism is the great national cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting with the People | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

Senior Katherine Nishimura finished tied for second in the pole vault, setting a Crimson record with a 3.70-meter height...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sees Mixed Results at Heptagonals | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...pair of free throws. From there, Harvard pulled a Jacobellis. That is to say, minus the snow and the gratuitous “method air,” it snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. First, Princeton guard Edwin Buffmire, who has only a few more inches in height that I do and considerably less hair, yanked down an offensive rebound in the middle of the paint and put it back through the hoop to trim the lead to four. Then the Crimson committed the first of two horrendous turnovers against the Tigers’ desperation full-court press...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: World Of Sports In Just One Evening | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

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