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...young people on the streets, the vast majority of whom are not criminals in any shape or form? The question of the common good lies at the heart of this debate - a question politicians appear not only unable to answer but also too nervous to touch with a barge pole. Stuart Waiton, Glasgow, Scotland...
...women’s side, the 4x400-meter relay team of O’Callaghan, sophomore Katie Orchowski, freshman Thea Lee, and senior Erika Geihe pulled in an eighth-place finish with a time of 4:08.32.Co-captain Sally Stanton and classmate Clara Blattler topped the list in the pole vault. Both cleared the 3.50-meter bar, but because Stanton passed in fewer attempts she came away with first place.On the men’s side, sophomore Robert Kenney’s 3:59.46 finish in the 1500-meter run earned him a fourth-place nod, and classmate Stephen Chester...
...ground may be fertile for a compromise simply because neither Moscow nor Washington is in a position to achieve all of its goals. Responsible Russian officials don't believe U.S. interceptors in Poland will threaten the deterrent power of Russian ICBMs that would travel over the North Pole, rather than westward. And Putin likely realizes that the U.S. is unlikely to be dissuaded from deploying missile defense in Europe, just as Bush is likely to discover that he will have trouble getting the necessary backing from Western European allies on admitting Georgia and Ukraine as long as Russia remains...
...student-athletes—in the women’s hammer with a toss of 44.97 meters.Sophomore Jack Brady finished second in both the discus and the shot put, launching the latter a personal best 15.49 meters.Freshman Sean Gil cleared 4.60 meter to win the men’s pole vault, while senior Clara Blattler finished third on the women’s side, clearing a 3.55-meter bar.—Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...mention cooling to the researchers behind the Phoenix Mars Lander. Their ship will have just six months to sample and study the water ice at the Martian north pole before -200°F (-130°C) winter temperatures hit the region. "We last until the sun goes down. Then we freeze to death," says principal investigator Peter Smith, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before it does, Phoenix Lander will probably offer a first look at actual Martian water ice rather than the dry water scars of millenniums past. To do that, the lander will...