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...everything right," says Ligia Mizhquiri, 12, from Chicago. "What happens [at Harry's school] happens to us. Some of us are popular. Some of us are not. Some of us get bullied. Some of us are bullies." Harry's friendship with Ron evokes every buddy movie ever made; the pattern is so familiar to kids that when word got out that a character would die in Book 4, children wrote to Rowling and begged her not to kill Ron off, because in the movies it's always the sweet best friend who dies. But into that familiar tree house Rowling...
...group of top advisers in what looked like someone's home. On the wall behind Saddam were maps of Iraq, marked in heavy felt pen, that appeared to indicate troop deployments. Yunis recognized the melon-colored curtains and ruffled white drapes, the design of the stone floor, the geometric pattern on the empty chair next to Qusay, even some water damage on one of the walls. Saddam, she realized, was sitting in her living room. The next afternoon, acting on intelligence that Saddam had been spotted, an American B-1 dropped four 2,000-lb. bombs over a block...
...accumulate and spread rapidly, which increases the likelihood that a nasty new variant could appear in the future?possibly next fall or winter, when environmental conditions could make SARS more contagious. (Some scientists theorize that SARS, like similar viral infections that produce colds, could settle into a seasonal pattern of infection.) "What we have to realize is that SARS may be with us to stay," says Dr. Leong Che-hung, chairman of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. Unless a cure is found, the best hope is that SARS eventually loses its punch...
...Garrett Boone. His solution: a U-shape layout that "allows people to pass all the departments in the store, both on the sides and in the center." Ikea, based in Helsingborg, Sweden, directs shoppers around its vast showrooms on preset paths but also allows them to circumvent the traffic pattern with strategically placed "cut-throughs." Customers like them because they provide not only increased mobility but also a clandestine, blows-against-the-empire kind of thrill...
...number of College projects will be delayed or put on hold, she said. Student life and activities funding is “in a holding pattern,” she said, and the maintenance budget—half of the College’s overall expenditures—will be cut 5 percent...