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...should head south to the Queensbridge housing projects in New York, the birthplace of Nas. I know, his dad didn’t rap either, but he is a famous jazz musician. And jazz, of course, is often considered the precursor...
...Despite announcing the completion of 3,000 centrifuges - as a precursor to its intended installation of the 54,000 it plans to array for nuclear fuel production - the capacity to enrich uranium to weapons grade still appears to be years away. As recently as March 5, Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said his agency's inspectors "have not seen concrete proof of the industrial capacity to produce weapon-usable nuclear material." Weeks earlier, the IAEA had said that Iran remained some time away from even the capacity...
...resealed tomb may still hold many mysteries. Jacobovici says the strange symbol over its entrance - a swooping chevron over a circle - may have been the precursor of a symbol used by the Templar Knights. "There were also three skulls inside, arranged in a triangle, as if they were guardians," he says. "And that's not something you find in Jewish funeral rites." Jacobovici says the tomb was vandalized, possibly during the Crusader times...
...carnage of World War II, it was as much American minds and muscle as European ones that determined that Europe needed new institutions binding nations together if it was to avoid the catastrophes of war. Indeed, NATO and the Marshall Plan, both hatched in Washington, predated the E.E.C.'s precursor, the European Coal and Steel Community...
DIED. Bob Carroll Jr., 88, veteran TV writer who helped define the seminal '50s sitcom I Love Lucy; in Los Angeles. Carroll and partner Madelyn Pugh were the first permanent writers hired for Lucille Ball's 1940s radio show My Favorite Husband--the precursor to the TV hit starring Ball and real-life husband Desi Arnaz. Carroll, who later wrote for The Lucy Show and Life with Lucy, went on to write for every I Love Lucy episode...