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...Even smaller NEOs could prove troublesome at best, whether they crash into land or ocean. “There’s some modeling to indicate that objects of a few hundred meters across would [cause damage] comparable to what we saw in the tsunami in the Indian Ocean a few years ago,” said Brian G. Marsden, the director emeritus of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in a phone interview. And they’ll come eventually: kilometer-wide NEOs strike the earth every few hundred thousand years, with Tunguska...
...extreme minority,” he said that “there is an unfortunate perception that those attitudes are more common among Harvard students at Oxford.” Gerson submitted a letter to the editor that was published in The Crimson on March 2. Indian news Web sites have reported on the opinion piece, and as of 1:30 a.m. today, 166 comments had been posted on The Crimson’s Web site in response to the op-ed. Rhodes alum Rachael A. Wagner ’04 said she knew both Dell and Mylavarapu while...
Every weekday morning, a detachment of Indian soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) embarks on an unusual kind of peacekeeping mission-one that doesn't require guns or ammo, or even shoes. Their focus, in fact, is on promoting inner peace as they operate what must be the first roving yoga ashram ever to appear in south Lebanon, a region better known for guerilla warfare and air strikes than for deep breathing, chanting and headstands...
...Still, the 850 soldiers of UNIFIL's Indian contingent may be just the chaps for the job. At home, they are known as the 15th Punjab Infantry Battalion-the oldest, most decorated and, according to them, the most admired unit in the Indian army. Founded in 1705 by the Mahraja of Patiala, they earned their stripes fighting wherever the British Empire needed them, including the Middle East. During World War I, they fought in Gallipoli, Sinai, Gaza, and Jerusalem, and formed a major part of the British force occupying Iraq during the 1920s. Since India's independence from Britain, they...
...which it is responsible. Does this mean Hizballah has given up southern Lebanon? Probably not. The group itself admitted that it has rearmed since Israel destroyed much of its weapon stockpile last summer. Meanwhile, the Israeli press is full of talk about finishing the job. As one of the Indian officers says after a tasty lunch of basmati rice, papadoms and mango pickle: "This could be the calm before the storm." In which case, the inner peace of yoga will come in handy...