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Japanese police have found evidence of sarin nerve gas at a building owned by thereligious cult suspected in the Mar. 20 Tokyo subway attacksthat killed 11 people and injured about 5,000 others, according to media reports. A chemical called methylphosphon acid monoisopropyl, which can only be created when sarin decomposes, was found in a laboratory that belongs to the Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth) sect on Friday, NHK television and the Yomiuri newspaper said. Though police have so far found chemical stockpiles that include all the ingredients of sarin, sophisticated laboratory equipment, secret plants and documents, they have...
...Citadel also believes that women may mar the excellence of the school. Although this has been a much cited problem, the evidence for it is strangely lacking. In the Navy these criticisms came to the forefront when one of two female F-14 fighter pilots was killed in a training accident. Opponents of women in the Navy immediately isolated gender as the single determining factor in the accident...
Eventually, he may learn to apply this editing skill to the excesses that mar the novel--a rich attachment to vulgarity, including a deadening level of profanity and a comically exaggerated preoccupation with smells. Clearly, Weiss wants the reader to accept Burry as a fatal temptress. But it does not help to be told early on that her aroma is "part B.O. and maybe patchouli...
Erica S. Schacter's editorial "More Courses in the Core" (ed., Mar. 21, 1995) makes an interesting and valuable addition to the debate on the validity of the Core as an entity and the logic of the requirements as they currently stand. She misses, however, an important point. Although humanities courses cannot be substituted for core requirements, core classes themselves can often be used to fulfill humanities concentration requirements. Thus, for example, many a Social Studies concentrator fulfills part of his or her political theory requirement with a Moral Reasoning class, thereby killing the same proverbial two birds...
Prof. John C. Coffee Jr. of the Columbia Business School, quoted in the New York Times (Mar. 5, 1995). Coffee was referring to the case of Nicholas W. Leeson, the 'rogue trader' who caused the bankruptcy of Barings P.L.C...