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...Sunday morning, another resident described watching through his rearview mirror as a car bomb ripped through a police checkpoint in the same neighborhood. Police and army officers had been clustered there near chunks of concrete and walls of sand bags in an effort to heighten security. In the eastern neighborhood of Zayouna, another car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint, killing three people, wire services reported. "These attacks are evidence that al-Qaeda is still a very large threat," Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll, a spokesman for the multi-national forces in Iraq, said Sunday, "We are continuously very closely focused...
Passengers wringing their hands over delayed flights and lost baggage aren't the only problem plaguing airlines. A near collision on the tarmac at Dallas-Fort Worth airport on April 6 punctuated a six-month period that included 15 other runway "incursions" - a spike from eight during the same period the year before. With air traffic controllers having operated for more than 600 days without a new contract from the FAA, morale among them is at an all-time low, and with just 11,100 fully trained professionals serving the entire country - the smallest number in 16 years - a combination...
...better.” Faculty at Harvard’s Center for the Environment should work closely with President Faust and the rest of the University administration to establish the economic base necessary for campus greening. In our pursuit of sustainability, we need to set quantifiable benchmarks for the near future. The University should take a cue from Boston and adopt a University-wide emissions reduction target. Until rhetoric and symbolic action are replaced by a commitment to lower emissions, Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions will simply continue to climb. Justine R. Lescroart...
...August brought him more pain than profit. Over six months, his investment in the stock market shrank from $28,500 to $17,100. He pulled out completely in January. "Anyone who has gone through the last few months could feel nothing but hopeless," Lu says. "I won't get near to the stock market for the rest of my life...
...Vice President Dick Cheney, who believe North Korea has no intention of giving up its nukes, no matter what diplomatic agreements it signs. The most vocal of this group is Bush's former UN representative John Bolton, who likens the State Department to a drunk searching for car keys near a lamppost, even though he knows the keys were lost in the bar. Asked by a passerby why he keeps looking near the lamppost, the drunk replies: "Because the light is better...