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...significant chunk of ’06 lagging behind for that last sip. Harvard’s super seniors are not of the repeat 12th grade variety, but rather have generally taken a semester or two off to experience life outside of the ivy gates. Some work, while others jet set for a year. One super senior even spent a term laboring on a goat farm in New Zealand. Such adventures are a somewhat common phenomenon: the Administrative Board approved 171 leave of absence petitions, according to the Board’s 2006-2007 Guide For Students...
...Washington's biggest customers in 2005 included Israel (which received 22 F-16D jet fighters), Afghanistan (173 armored combat vehicles) and Egypt (100 M-1A1 tanks). Two-thirds of Russia's arms shipments went to China and India. Among the other busiest arms suppliers: Ukraine (which reported 649 weapons exports last year, almost double its 2004 count), Israel and Turkey...
...didn't take long for Dyson to reinvent the public-rest-room hand dryer. Most dryers blow hot air on your hands to evaporate the water pooled on the surface. Dyson's Airblade instead blasts the water off your hands with a jet of air traveling at 400 m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this...
...them and realizes that they are not political but factual, though he would personally take more of a stand on things. I am a non-partisan, ink-stained, 63-year-old reporter…if you can get ink on you from a computer. I do, from my laser jet printer. Sometimes, it sprays...
...Seven months later, the same jet flew into Islamabad near midnight, and extracted three terror suspects. One was Binyan Mohammed, an Ethiopian student living in London, whom Pakistani security officials had arrested in Karachi. The CIA plane then flew the three men to Rabat, touching down at 3:40 a.m., while most people in the Moroccan capital were asleep; Mohammed has since been declared an enemy combatant and moved to Guantanamo, where he remains in legal limbo. Poring over the flight logs, Grey concluded it was 28th time CIA jets had touched down in Morocco since the 9/11 attacks. Last...