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...Washington Blackwater Guards Charged In the latest blow to Blackwater Worldwide, the largest security contractor in Iraq, five employees were indicted on voluntary-manslaughter and other charges in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians at a busy Baghdad intersection. The Justice Department unsealed a statement given by a sixth guard recounting the 2007 incident in which dozens of people were shot. In the account, Jeremy Ridgeway describes how he and five other men opened fire on cars and even a girls' school, claiming it was done without provocation...
...Ottawa A New Liberal Leader In Canadian politics' latest shake-up, the opposition Liberal Party has replaced leader Stéphane Dion with former academic Michael Ignatieff a week after Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended Parliament until January to avoid a no-confidence vote. Many felt that Dion's flubs hurt the opposition's power-grab attempt...
...Boston Are U.S. Kids Catching Up? The latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study revealed that while math and science scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students in the U.S. now beat the world average, their Asian counterparts continue to do better. The exams are administered every four years to assess global differences...
Only 9 percent of tenure-track faculty in the humanities at Harvard are minorities—in contrast to percentages of up to 33 percent at peer institutions like MIT—according to the latest report on Faculty Development and Diversity...
...wireless radio is sophisticated, and the battery uses the latest technology,” he said. “It’s an expensive solution but the other option is to create [new electrical infrastructure] and lay new power lines to get it up on top of roofs. The solar is very cost-effective...