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...Harry carries the rank of "Cornet," equivalent to a 2nd Lieutenant, and will command a troop of 12 men in four Scimitar armored reconnaissance vehicles, each with a crew of three. The Ministry of Defense said that "the decision to deploy him had been a military one, made by the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, in conjunction with Cornet Wales' commanding officer," adding that "the Royal Household has been consulted throughout...
...McAndrew, the other reigning Ivy League co-Player of the Week Harvard will see this weekend. McAndrew is third in the league in both scoring and three-point field goal percentage. He is averaging 15.7 points per game and shooting 44.2 percent from long range. His 61 made threes rank him second in the league behind Ryan Wittman of Cornell...
Just how silly is Google? Its search interface offers translations into Klingon, Elmer Fudd-speak, Pig Latin - even the lingo of the Muppets' Swedish Chef. On past April Fools' days the site has pitched Google Gulp, a drink to make searchers smarter, pigeon rank, a system whereby pecking order would determine search results, and Google Romance, a satirical site boasting a sizzling "soulmate search." The web giant has even playfully offered jobs on the moon...
...With a resurgent Taliban in the south, famine and widespread poverty, drug addiction may rank lowest on the long list of Afghanistan's problems. But it is accompanied by an equally disturbing increase in AIDS cases. Fatimie estimates that half of Afghanistan's 2,000 suspected and 61 confirmed cases of AIDS have been transmitted by intravenous drug use. That doesn't surprise Suliman, who says up to 10 users will share the same needle. Nejat Center and a few foreign NGOs have started distributing condoms and single-use syringes wherever drug users congregate, but that's only a short...
Tonight’s game with Princeton will be a defensive battle—the Tigers rank last in the Ivy league at just 50.4 points per game, but first in team defense, giving up only 52.4 points per game...