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...Herzliya Conference in Israel last month, Mr. Kramer, who in his own words provides advice on “U.S. policy options in the Middle East,” advocated measures to diminish Palestinian birth rates as a means of population control. Mr. Kramer stated that Israel’s siege on Gaza, which prohibits the entry of crucial humanitarian supplies, helps “break Gaza’s runaway population growth and there is some evidence that they have.” He suggests that this phenomenon “may begin to crack the culture of martyrdom...
After a nine-month testing period, Le Whif—inhalable chocolate and coffee invented by Harvard biomedical engineering professor David A. Edwards—will launch its products in cities nationwide and abroad, including London and Tokyo...
...teams are being offered a six-month trial, and Squadron says almost every team is toying with it right now. Though Bloomberg won't say how much it will charge the clubs for the product, a source close to the company says Bloomberg plans to price it at a rate similar to the fees for its financial terminals, which cost between $1,500 and $1,800 a month. Even for the lowest-revenue clubs, such an investment is probably worth it. And as more teams continue to hire quant experts to help evaluate players, the market should be strong...
...taken condemnable measures and abused the powers of the Internet for totalitarian gain. They have banned dissent blogs and have hacked into the email accounts of human rights activists and allegedly even Pentagon computers. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was justified in chastising China for its Internet censorship last month in a speech that propelled Internet freedom to the forefront of the United States’ diplomatic agenda...
Some inside info on Mather: Every month or so, a new modern art installation goes up in Mather’s main entryway, aka the Three Column Gallery. The House is also home to a woodturning studio and a pottery studio; it hosts classes in both. The low-rise suites are connected to one another via a complicated network of fire doors and shared bathrooms, opening up the possibility of 8-to-14-man rooming groups and sick games of Assassins (the winner last year hid in his final victim’s closet for six hours). Finally...