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Terrorists are less inclined to seek the newest or most sophisticated method of attack than to fall back on pragmatic solutions. The car bomb has been a part of British life longer than the Internet. Since 1970, terrorists of one stripe or another have deployed at least 756 vehicle bombs around the world, according to research conducted for TIME by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. At least 101 appeared in the U.K., many of them planted by the IRA. (From 1998 to 2004, the top car-bomb perpetrator...
...campaign in France by Algeria's radical Armed Islamic Group - the first time jihadist terror struck Europe. "Use of the nails and the size of the explosion that would have occurred makes it clear the intent was very definitely to kill and maim," the French official says. "But the method takes you all the way back to 1995. There have to be reasons for that...
...professor at MIT since 1975, Schrock, who earned his Ph.D from Harvard in 1972, received the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on “the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis,” according to the Nobel Prize website...
...common method uses students' socio-economic status. That usually means determining whether they qualify for the federal program offering free or reduced-price meals to low-income kids. In 2000, Wake County, North Carolina, stopped considering race and started making assignments so that, among other things, no more than 40% of any public school's students qualified for free or reduced-price meals, according to Walt Sherlin, the assistant school superintendent who implemented the plan. Today, student performance is way up - the plan's main objective - while the schools are still diverse. But Sherlin says diversity is a mere coincidence...
...just that, clearly illustrating the theories of happiness in understandable and memorable terms. For example, he compares the four archetypal attitudes toward happiness—hedonism, rat racing, nihilism and the ideal pursuit of happiness—to different types of hamburgers, demonstrating the pros and cons of each method...