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...summer 2000, when Harvard presented preliminary plans for graduate student housing at One Western Ave., community concern about the height of the building brought Harvard’s architects back to the drawing board...
...much time in the streets and not enough in the classroom. But in some fields, it is very difficult to separate activism from scholarship. In fact, the field of Afro-American studies is an ideal example of an entire discipline that lends itself to public activity. Founded during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the field sprung from extremely activist roots. Many black studies scholars to this day believe that a central component of the field is activism...
...experts can identify whose blood was left at a crime scene. Investigators also pay careful attention to how the blood appears: patterns of smears, splatters or spray help re-create the movements of both the victim and the killer. The shapes of the drops can also indicate the height from which the blood fell...
Simply put, we don't want our houses to suggest English cottages anymore. Interior walls are disappearing. Volume has replaced coziness, from double-height entryways to oversize garages. It's a concept embraced by urbanites who have abandoned their shoebox-size apartments for the wide-open spaces of lofts reclaimed from 100-year-old factory buildings. With the living room fading, the kitchen has become the family gathering place, and it's being packed with multiple sinks and Department of Defense--priced ovens. The kitchen can't be contained anymore, so it blends into that large live-eat-play space...
...exact nature of the Mecca's cargo or the shipment's eventual destination remained unknown. But there were clues. Portworkers that night said they saw five motor launches ferry in large groups of men from the boat wearing black turbans, long beards and traditional Islamic salwar kameez. Their towering height suggested these travelers were foreigners, and the boxes of ammunition and the AK-47s slung across their shoulders helped sketch a sinister picture. Then in July, a senior member of Bangladesh's largest terrorist group, the 2,000-strong al-Qaeda-allied Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), told TIME...