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...honors students and reduces honors theses to 10,000 words.2/7: The Medical school is given a $42,226 grant to increase faculty pay. A week later, Radcliffe raises room rent for 1957 by $10-$15.2/15: The largest proton accelerator in the world is under construction at Brookhaven, Long Island. The machine will be operated by Harvard and eight other institutions. Two days later, Harvard and MIT commit to building a $4 million lab, sharing operations of the giant ‘704’ computer.2/20: Drawings of the radcliffe graduate refectory were finalized. The refectory is the second building...
...carnage that left 1,500 dead following East Timor's vote for independence seven years ago. The rebels refused government demands to surrender, calling instead for the Army itself to disarm, and for an investigation into their grievances. As street gangs fought running battles over east-west island rivalries through the suburbs of Becora and Fatuahi, the rebels launched attacks against the military headquarters at Tasi Tolu, 6 km from Dili. The civilian government seemed paralyzed, with rumors of dissension between the unpopular Alkatiri and President Xanana Gusm?o, a resistance hero...
...DIED. Edouard Michelin, 42, who in 1999 succeeded his father Fran?ois as CEO of the tire firm bearing the family name; in a boating accident; near Sein island, France. An engineer and onetime assembly-line worker who rose through the ranks, he controversially cut thousands of jobs to improve competitiveness, reformed the company's secretive image and created the annual Challenge Bibendum, in which automakers worldwide compete to create the most eco-friendly cars...
...Elugelab Island, W. Pacific Ocean Ivy's explosion broke the stillness of a mid-Pacific morning on Nov. 1, 1952; at 7:15 a.m., observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab...Its colors lost their infernal intensity, paled to harmless-looking but deadly pastels. April...
...challenge, though, so the ale is mostly Russian, German and, yes, Irish. But there are Scotch whisky brands aplenty and the menu tries hard to stay on theme. Full Duncan salad (named after the Highlander hero Duncan MacLeod) and Dundee lamb chop are on offer, as is an Orkney Island salad?although the menu acknowledges with disarming honesty that, while the calamari it's made of are very fresh, "O.K. maybe they're not brought in all the way from Scotland...