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...officer was dispatched to a report that damage may have been done to a fence by what was reportedly a plow truck. An officer arrived and reports that there is no damage to the fence...
...ever coming into focus. And there are other hurdles to overcome; the technology requires twice the normal bandwidth of a regular HD broadcast, which satellite and cable carriers aren't likely to offer until there is enough content (now there isn't any), and the NBA will need to plow a lot of money into development if it wants to expand the technology's reach...
...translation of The Aeneid and discover that it's, you know, pretty great stuff. Here's the demise of Euryalus: "He writhes in death/ as blood flows over his shapely limbs, his neck droops,/ sinking over a shoulder, limp as a crimson flower/ cut off by a passing plow." Fagles published terrific translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey a few years ago, so maybe I shouldn't have been gobsmacked by his Virgil. They're all quite popular too, part of a renewed passion for the classical world. The culture has lately offered up for mass consumption...
Whenever critics complain about the high cost of prescription drugs, the pharmaceutical industry's standard defense is that companies have to plow so much money into researching innovative new medicines. But a recently released report from the Government Accountability Office casts doubt on that rationale. Yes the industry is spending heavily on R&D, the GAO found, but it turns out big pharma isn't actually generating such a good return on their investments...
...taken so long," says Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management, a New Delhi-based security think tank. While the trial was carried out by a special terrorism court meant to sidestep India's notoriously clogged judicial system, it still took more than a decade to plow through 26,000 pages of evidence and testimony from 600 witnesses. In the meantime, 12 defendants have died, while the alleged masterminds?Bombay mobsters Dawood Ibrahim and Ibrahim (Tiger) Memon?have eluded police and are thought to be hiding overseas. Verdicts on the remaining suspects, including Bollywood film star Sanjay...