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...refugees would surely be children, UNICEF might also get into the act. The U.N. member states in 1992 created a Department of Humanitarian Affairs to bring some coordination into this chaos. But they did not give it enough money or authority; the department has turned into just another layer of bureaucracy...
...prizes in physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine or physiology, announced in Stockholm last week, went to scientists who have wrestled with questions at once basic and easily grasped: What is the universe made of? How does DNA create complex life-forms? What made the hole in the ozone layer? And how do people decide how they spend and invest their money...
...will take more than sweatshirts and coffee mugs to shore up the security of the Internet. The network was designed to be open and easily accessible, and new Internet software, like Sun Microsystems' Java, adds a whole new layer of insecurity. Java can liven up a Website with movies and animations sent to visitors' computers as little applications, or "applets." Java is supposed to screen these applets to make sure they can't do any damage to the computer that receives them. But to Sun's--and Netscape's--acute embarrassment, the version that appeared in Netscape's latest browser...
Their teacher, Edward A. Villavencio '96-`97, has been working on a lot mysteries with kids from all over the Boston area. So far, they've cracked some big cases: the ingredients of slime and how to make sound, for starters. Today, TLC (thin layer chromatography) is the subject of choice...
Each group gets a cup with a thin layer of acetone in it, along with a suspect, complete with...