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...regional war, fusing conflicts in Somalia; the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, where Eritrea-backed separatists are fighting the Ethiopian army; and across the Ethiopia-Eritrea border. Ken Menkhaus, a professor of political science at Davidson College, stresses "the danger ... that all these interlocking conflicts will ignite a larger conflagration." Eritrea is now the base for an alliance of Somali nationalist rebels, the UIC and separatist Ethiopian rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front. In July the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia, based in Nairobi, said Eritrea was supplying Somali insurgents with "huge" amounts of arms. U.N. Secretary-General...
...starters, look to the neck. Bigger, stronger neck muscles can balance the head during impact and lower the chances of the brain's being jolted in a collision. According to a study that will be published in the Journal of Biomechanics, the circumference of men's necks is 20% larger than that of women's necks. Further, resistance tests showed that men's necks are 50% stronger than those of women. Another new biomechanical study shows that during adolescence, boys develop significantly stronger necks than girls do. "More-developed necks allow boys to better absorb a blow to the head...
This is one of those little pop-cultural shifts--football overtakes baseball, salsa defeats ketchup--that signal bigger changes: here, in the relationship between the community and the individual. In a traditional Christmas story, the larger holiday is a social good. It uplifts the suicidal, raises every voice in Whoville, renders peace between Macy and Gimbel. Those who reject it--Scrooge, the Grinch--must be forced into its tinseled embrace. Community is all, as in Wonderful Life's blend of World War II patriotism and New Deal populism: your money's in the Kennedy house and Mrs. Macklin's house...
...Since dust particles are often several time larger than the devices that nanoscientists create, and temperature difference of a fraction of a degree can decrease the precision of an imaging device, LISE’s heavily-filtered 10,000-square foot cleanroom has less than 1,000 particles of dust per cubic foot. A typical urban environment has millions of particles per cubic foot...
...event, part of a larger, national “Day of Action” organized by the Union of Progressive Zionists (UPZ), focused on how to apportion control of Jerusalem’s Old City, a contested point in any future peace agreement...