Word: radars
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...Still the future of Los Angeles’ once-successful fashion week is uncertain in the current economic climate, suffering from waning corporate sponsorship and the steady relocation of local talent. And here in Beantown, the Boston Fashion Week has been hovering below the mainstream media’s radar for years. As the complicated formula for success in the global fashion arena continuously becomes more unpredictable, the laid-back, unpretentious atmosphere that permeates the Design Hive appears peculiarly quaint. Yet this calm, collected approach to the commonly high-pressure flights of fashion industry fancy is in fact an essential...
...most people in the Czech Republic agree with him. Repeated polls have found that more than 60% of the country opposes the construction of radar facilities within its borders. Many feared that the U.S. missile-defense system would destabilize security by provoking Russia, which has long been against the building of the shield, and making the Czech Republic a target for an Iranian first strike. "Seventy percent of people in the Czech Republic will certainly welcome [this decision],"said Social Democratic leader Jiri Paroubek, whose party had opposed the radar, citing recent polls. "I think it will raise the United...
...although Crimson sports flies under the radar of many Harvard students, all is not lost...
...social implications. First offered in 2005, Archaeology 1130 is about to break ground for the third time. The first batch of Archaeology 1130/1131 students began digging in tandem with plumbing updates in front of Massachusetts Hall. Through studying 19th-century maps of the Yard and performing a ground-penetrating radar survey, professors discovered that the foundations of the Indian College founded by a charter in 1655 lay underneath Matthews Hall. Professor Christina Hodge describes the course as “an unusual kind of course at Harvard. There aren’t that many courses where students literally have their...
...voting is illustrative of our current Afghan dilemma. We have been prodding the Afghans to run, from Kabul, a country that has always been governed from the bottom up, valley by valley, tribe by tribe. Karzai has many attributes, but a desire to provide effective governance is off his radar screen. He is good at the traditional form of Afghan politics, creating alliances among tribal and ethnic factions. The money distributed by the central government - inevitably, money contributed by the international community - is routinely received as tribute by Karzai's local allies, to be disbursed, or not, as they wish...