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...January, after he became convinced that the war was illegal, he tried to resign rather than go to Iraq, but the Army wouldn't let him do so. As a compromise, he asked to be sent instead to Afghanistan, a war he supports. His request was not granted...
...Meanwhile, police in London Wednesday were granted by the courts more time to question the suspects in their custody, who include at least one woman. New powers granted under the 2006 Terrorism Act allow the police a maximum of 28 days to detain the suspects without charge, subject to request. Some 46 properties and 20 vehicles have already been searched and vast swaths of woodland near High Wycombe, scene of six of the first wave of arrests, are currently being combed for evidence of stashed explosives...
With such rueful hindsight, Israel last month put in an urgent request for precision-guided, 5,000-lb. bunker busters, and the Bush Administration complied, the intelligence source told TIME. And with the New York Times last week reporting that Israel has asked the U.S. to speed up delivery of short-range rockets armed with cluster bombs, Israel appears to be massively gearing up just as the U.N. Security Council--at long last--approved a cease-fire agreement...
...large classes. This experiment showed that small classes enhanced learning, and that the beneficial skills students acquired in small classes continued to be seen even after they returned to large classes. The results of this experiment “reportedly helped spur President Bill Clinton’s request for 100,000 new teachers to reduce classroom sizes,” according to The Washington Post.Mosteller also worked with Professor David L. Wallace of the University of Chicago to determine who had written 12 of the 57 Federalist Papers by calculating sentence length and the frequency of certain words. They...
...those rockets were being fired from - launchers hidden in 38 underground bunkers, burrowed 6 yards down on rocky hilltops across southern Lebanon - Halutz's vaunted Israeli-made "air fuel" bombs have failed to destroy them. So last month, a top intelligence source told TIME, Israel put in an urgent request for precision-guided, 5,000 lb "bunker-buster" bombs. The Bush Administration complied, but it will take several weeks for the bombs to be fitted onto Israeli jets; Israel has also requested an urgent delivery of short-range rockets armed with cluster bombs from the U.S., according...