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...December 2003, University Hall discovered that HUCEP’s precursor, a student-run outfit known as SafetyWalk, had been defunct for a large portion of the year without anyone knowing...
...Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London springs to mind, but, as Wynhausen acknowledges, this compelling inside account has a more recent precursor. In 1998, American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich set off for low-wage America, posing as a housewife newly returned to work and taking whatever unskilled jobs she could get for her best-seller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Inspired to try the same thing in Australia, Wynhausen took a year off work, invented a c.v. and started knocking on doors...
...subject. Two weeks ago, the White House secretly dispatched two National Security Council (NSC) aides to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul armed with evidence that North Korea may have supplied a uranium compound to Libya for its weapons labs. The gaseous compound, known as uranium hexafluoride (UF6), is a precursor to bomb-grade uranium, something bombmakers feed into centrifuges to harvest the highly fissionable isotope uranium-235 (U-235) that is at the heart of an atom bomb. Though UF6 is hard to make, it's possible to track: forensic tests focus on trace isotopes, such as U-234, whose prevalence...
...another step forward in what you might call the late Dali rehab project. Five years ago a show organized by the Zurich Kunsthaus, "Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000: From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public performer, role model par excellence for Andy Warhol and Koons. It might not seem like a good thing to re-emerge as the original media whore...
...prime minister in order to scuttle his planned Gaza withdrawal. Abbas?s problem, however, is that the militants have made prisoner releases a fundamental condition for their ?hudna,? and its prospects are grim if he can?t deliver in a manner that satisfies them. So, even on a ?precursor? issue such as prisoner releases, Abbas?s needs and Sharon?s may be mutually exclusive. Following Tuesday?s talks, the two sides agreed simply to create a committee to further discuss Israel?s criteria for releasing prisoners...