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...targets hover ghosts. My club, Sydney's Royal Australian Naval Reserve Rifle Club, has its origins in the military. Most of the 170 members are civilians, but every Saturday, builders, bankers, surgeons, ex-servicemen, chiropractors, chefs and electricians-men and women, from teenagers to 80-year-olds-compete in honor of some milestone in military history: last week it was the German surrender in 1945. Among those waiting to shoot or scoring at the targets, you'll hear talk about how 19th-century Zulus thought bullets flew like spears and so aimed their rifles too high, why creeping artillery barrages...
...It’s a great honor, and I’m very pleased,” said Owen, who is the chair of the department of comparative literature...
...Security has required nuclear plants to gauge their vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack. (NCR ran similar tests in the 1990s but the results were so embarrassingly bad that the tests were discontinued. Safety first.) Vermont Yankee is not alone in failing the mock attacks, but it does have the honor of having “the largest number of weaknesses of any reactor that has been tested,” according to NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan...
...name of a tavern once located in Southwark, England that John Harvard left to the University in addition to his library and his fortune. Although the original tavern burnt down in 1876, it will be enshrined in the new pub set to open next February in honor of the original gift, Corker said. Next fall, there will be a string of pub-related events for students leading up to the grand opening of Queen’s Head. In October, students will be invited to an “unveiling” open house where they will see the pub?...
...newest members, Waters wrote in an e-mail that “it is quite an honor for them and for Harvard...