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...physical evidence of the flares are aurorae (northern lights), which may be visible as far south as Florida for the next few days...
...been shaky, as close wins over Lafayette (3-4) and Princeton (1-5) could have easily been losses. However, Harvard actually won each game, which is more than can be said for the three teams in front of it. No. 13 Western Illinois, No. 14 Grambling and No. 15 Northern Arizona have a combined seven losses this season...
...benefits under their own roofs. It is a complaint heard from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea: national governments make deals, and the locals get shortchanged. As a result, local protests are stalling at least 10 mining-investment projects in Peru that are worth $1.4 billion. In the northern town of Cajamarca, whose decade-old Yanacocha gold mine is the world's second largest, residents are loudly demonstrating against expansion plans by the mine's U.S. co-owner, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. (2002 revenues: $2.75 billion). Yanacocha mined 2.3 million oz. of gold last year and earned $700 million...
...been saved? I hold no brief for Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but I support them in this. The daily death toll of allied troops is heartbreaking, but it will be worth it in the end. I am the father of a British soldier who served in Northern Ireland during the worst of the "troubles," so I know how soldiers' families feel. Mick Timson Caistor, England...
Somewhere in Ireland last week, the Irish Republican Army got rid of a cache of weapons as international inspectors looked on. The move was meant to impress pro-British unionists in Northern Ireland and revive their appetite for sharing power with Irish nationalists, as the province heads toward November elections. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, flew into Belfast for the occasion. But this careful choreography was replaced with chaos after the I.R.A., apparently to avoid the appearance of surrender, allowed the inspectors to release only the barest facts about the disposal and nothing...