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...Elisabeth Fritzl had been abused by her father as a child, and at 16 she ran away but was returned home by police. When social workers came to the house, they spoke only to her father. Later, when she was kidnapped, the police launched only a limited investigation, and no official suspicions were raised when, three times in two years, Fritzl approached courts seeking to adopt or be recognized as the foster parent of the three children he claimed had been left on his doorstep in cardboard boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria Squirms in Limelight of the Cellar-Incest Trial | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

This weekend, the Black Law Students Association held its annual spring conference, titled “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Effecting Change at Home and Across the Globe” with New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Jr., as a keynote speaker. The conference, which ran from Friday through yesterday afternoon, was open to Harvard students and the general public. It was intended to inform attendees of issues affecting the Black community, according to the BLSA’s Web site. Brigid K. Ndege ’10, a Harvard Law School student and BLSA member, said she attended...

Author: By Beverly E. Pozuelos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nagin Discusses New Orleans with BLSA | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...provide supervised autonomy," explains Don Nimblett, a business-development manager with SMSS maker Lockheed Martin. "You could [instruct it to go] to a point, and it would find its way to that location on the earth's surface. It is a very mobile vehicle. At one point the soldiers ran it into a ravine, and the vehicle was able to climb back out with no trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Robots: Will Humans Still Be in Control? | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

Skinner organized about 30 people to inflate 6000 balloons last night during a party that ran from 8 p.m. to 4:30 am. The Artspace is now filled with balloons, and according to Skinner, “anyone’s welcome to come and play...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Have a Ball Among 6000 Balloons | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...Adventure”—hence the selection of the color blue for the balloons, and the sea creature balloon animals. And actually, people twirling, running, and diving in the balloons did create ocean-like waves. At one point, FlyBy joined everyone else in the room as we ran from one end of the Artspace to the other, creating a giant balloon tsunami. For a final touch, the static electricity generated by thousands of balloons rubbing against each other allowed some to stay stuck to the ceiling, creating splotches of blue...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Have a Ball Among 6000 Balloons | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

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