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...piece recites a litany of atrocities committed in Kosovo, quoting them verbatim from a human rights report, without any explanation or interpretation. This does nothing to inform, enrage or sadden readers; it is instead a list of foreign-sounding names and places that would mean nothing to most readers. It merely perpetuates confusion and feeds a sense of helplessness at the apparent complexity of the situation...
...piece recites a litany of atrocities committed in Kosovo, quoting them verbatim from a human rights report, without any explanation or interpretation. This does nothing to inform, enrage or sadden readers; it is instead a list of foreign-sounding names and places that would mean nothing to most readers. It merely perpetuates confusion and feeds a sense of helplessness at the apparent complexity of the situation...
...council is learning that lesson now--with abill that endorses a Harvard-based ROTC program.Debate of the bill spawned over 130 e-mailmessages to the council's mailing list beforespring break--on topics ranging from the Ku KluxKlan to the "current science on homosexuality...
...span the networks! In Berners-Lee's scheme there would be no central manager, no central database and no scaling problems. The thing could grow like the Internet itself, open-ended and infinite. "One had to be able to jump," he later wrote, "from software documentation to a list of people to a phone book to an organizational chart to whatever...
There is something wrong, however, with this account of how the universe began. There is not nearly enough matter in the universe to match the predictions of the Big Bang, and our current list of the particles of matter is almost certainly incomplete. We need a more sophisticated view of what is meant by "empty space," which turns out not to be empty at all. There are also serious philosophical problems created by the Big Bang, which can be described but not explained. Worse, nobody has been able to reconcile quantum physics with the other great triumph of 20th century...