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...measure,” a first-person account of a hyperconscious tapeworm who commences his narrative from inside a toilet bowl.“Once I’d been ingested I knew what to do where I found myself, I gained consciousness; nature is a miracle in the know-how it has provided, ready, in all its millions of varieties of eggs: I hatched from my minute containment that the human eye never could have detected on the lettuce, the raw meat, the finger, and began to grow myself. Segment by segment. Measuredly,” he (it?) says.His...
...Harvard’s unjust disciplinary tribunal. Although Pilbeam has created a committee of three anonymous faculty members to reform the Ad Board, the committee, like the Ad Board itself, seems largely a sham. Sundquist and Sarafa are committed to pushing for meaningful reform to the Ad Board. Their know-how and drive are the best opportunity the student body has to enact real change to the Ad Board. Beyond the Ad Board, improving mental health services on campus and streamlining the convoluted student group funding process are at the top of Sundquist and Sarafa?...
...suspension of enrichment until all outstanding concerns can be resolved. What Iran has lately attempted to do is to resolve the IAEA's original complaint without actually turning off its centrifuges. For the U.S. and its allies, however, the key objective is preventing the Iranians from mastering the enrichment know-how that would allow them to produce bomb material. And so the deadlock continues...
President George W. Bush has warned that "World War III" could be the consequence of Iran gaining the know-how to make nuclear weapons. Vice President Dick Cheney recently declared that Washington would "not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," and that Iran would face "serious consequences" if it refuses to stop enriching uranium. But the U.S. military, at least in the short term, appears to be pushing in the other direction...
...Upon moving to Jakarta at 14, she began collecting traditional fabrics, as well as picking up know-how from the artisans she bought them off. Not long after, Obin started designing patterns herself, and experimenting with techniques of producing batik, including the use of hand-woven silk instead of the usual cottons. When, at the age of 31, she finally opened a small outlet for her designs in central Jakarta, she became an immediate hit among the élite neighborhood's well-off shoppers. "Obin led a revolution in modernizing batik by translating traditional motifs into contemporary design," explains leading...