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...driver and a conductor, who is responsible for opening and closing the doors. Conductors make sure that no one is caught in the doors and dragged alongside the train, which usually results in serious injury, if not death. Even with conductors on the job, such accidents sometimes occur...
This incident is the second assault to occur near Mather House in the past two weeks...
Some are taking precautions. "We're keeping our doors locked," said Juri Henley-Cohn '00, another fifth-floor resident. His roommate, Brian Johnson '00, said he was afraid a similar incident might occur. "There's pretty much nothing you can do if someone gets the master key," he said...
...most violent space storms of all occur when magnetic field lines in the solar wind connect with those that surround the earth, creating a kind of funnel that channels huge quantities of solar plasma into the magnetosphere. In response, powerful currents surge through the high reaches of the atmosphere, where they can utterly scramble broadcast signals, and even through seawater and bedrock. These surface currents can corrode buried pipelines, interrupt transatlantic phone conversations and overheat electrical transformers. In 1989, during the most recent solar maximum, currents induced by a geomagnetic storm brought down the power grid that supplies Canada...
...long as the U.S. government maintains its policy of interfering with the domestic political affairs of other nations, tragedies such as TWA Flight 800 will inevitably occur. Sadly, it is often innocent people who are the victims of violence, not the politicians and policymakers whose international meddling sows the seeds of conflict. DAVID N. THOMSON Sydney, Australia...