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...commonplace in Aceh as to be almost banal: Ishak, a 51-year-old farmer who was standing watch over Alue Bieng that night, was sprawled on a wooden platform used by the village's night watchmen, his T shirt pocked with bullet holes. Beneath the platform lay a pool of blood and the brass casings of the seven bullets that killed...
...This debt ranged from knowledge of wine making to polo and Buddhism but was often paid back in kind. China sent silk, paper, porcelain and gunpowder along the Silk Road. In exchange, astrological findings from its western reaches deepened China's knowledge of the heavens. The principal trade routes lay between 30 and 40 degrees latitude, ensuring that Silk Road kingdoms from the Mediterranean to China saw the same stars and could benefit from shared observations. Manuscripts depicting the movements of the Moon and planets found in Arabic and Indian astronomy, which had been shaped by the discoveries of Babylon...
...Cooper, Robertson takes over physical planning, they will begin to work with Harvard planners and faculty to lay out a framework for development. Allston Initiative Director and chief University planner Kathy A. Spiegelman said Friday she expected the firm would deliver some concrete plan for development within 18 months...
...books question psychology’s conventional wisdom that environment rather than genes determines one’s character. Yet in defending “nature, not nurture,” Pinker’s language remains uncannily lucid and accessible to the “lay public” that does not call psychology its profession...
George down-played the difficulty of bouncing back from the long lay...