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...They prefer a student who does well on a variety of subjects to a student with all As in only one subject,” said Alpha Iota Chapter Secretary J. F. Coakley...
...allowed Pakistan's Frontier Corps, a poorly paid militia that operates in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, to set up a checkpoint across the border. Angurada stands on the Afghan side of the international border, but it falls on the Pakistani side of a boundary that Pakistanis tend to prefer: the Durand Line, which in 1893 separated Afghanistan from what was then part of British India...
...India is used to the occasional man-killer, until now such incidents were largely explained by human trespass on an animal's hunting ground or ferociously bad luck. Leopards are the Greta Garbos of the big cat world. The 7,500 that remain in India are independent hunters that prefer never to cross paths with man, let alone taste him. Until now, they have wanted to be alone...
...those who thought the tech business was about crushing primitive methods of communication. But geeks have been unsuccessfully trying to develop and market a computerized writing pad for years. Raise your stylus if you remember the Apple Newton, which flopped in 1992. Engineers seem convinced that most of us prefer handwriting to typing and desperately desire to be freed from the shackles of keyboards. And now that computers are getting better at recognizing handwriting - the Newton was laughably inept in that regard - PC manufacturers are once again trying to sell us machines that work almost as well...
...first time since it was created in 1999 to replace UNSCOM, the inspection team that was withdrawn from Iraq after being denied access to sensitive sites. Blix, who spent 16 years heading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was tapped to lead UNMOVIC when the U.S.'s preferred pick, former UNSCOM chief Rolf Ekeus, was nixed by France and Russia on the grounds that Iraq would never readmit him. Washington hawks - who charge that under Blix the IAEA missed weapons programs in both Iraq and North Korea - still see his selection as a sop to Saddam. "I've heard that...