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...already converted, games can be learning environments that would be impossible in an ordinary classroom. The creators of People Power: The Game of Civil Resistance, expected to launch in February, designed their product to be used to train nonviolent activists. "We want to provide people with a chance to make decisions and see what the results are, but without getting killed or thrown in prison," says U.S.-based Steve York, the game's project manager. (See pictures of World of Warcraft...
Here's a fact about the underwear attack that you might have missed in the media shoutfest: it failed. It failed, first of all, because Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was just one terrorist. Once upon a time, al-Qaeda's modus operandi was to launch multiple, simultaneous attacks. That way, even if one attack failed, the entire operation wouldn't. On 9/11, the network deployed 19 hijackers on four planes; on 12/25, by contrast, it managed only one. Second, the underwear attack failed because Abdulmutallab wasn't particularly well trained. The 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were personally selected by Osama...
Searching for a lightly-used futon or selling your dog-eared Gov. 20 coursepack will soon become a bit easier with the upcoming official launch of Crimsonlist, Harvard’s version of the online classifieds Web site Craigslist...
...which will conduct audits during the coming year after reviewing questionnaires probing related business activities and compensation at colleges around the country. IRS officials have said, according to media reports, that the questionnaires would trigger audits, but did not specify what exactly would cause the IRS to launch an audit...
...While the Pentagon said it had received no prior notice of China's missile test, it added that U.S. space-based sensors "detected two geographically separated missile-launch events" leading to an "exo-atmospheric collision." The event marked the latest outer-space tit for tat between the two nations: in 2007, China blasted one of its own weather satellites to smithereens, generating concern it was perfecting a satellite-killing weapon similar to the one last tested by the U.S. in 1985. In 2008, the U.S. destroyed a disabled spy satellite with a missile fired from a Navy ship, ostensibly...