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...site of the city's remains. A report by the British Museum claims soldiers have crushed ancient paving stones with tanks, carelessly filled construction sandbags with precious artifacts, and dug trenches - one of them 560 ft. (170 m) long - through archaeological deposits. All of this may rob the world of Babylon's final treasures, but, as the Louvre exhibition attests, the civilization will live on - in myth, if not in matter...
...than 280,000 from their homes. Some find their way to Darfur's swollen relief camps, home now to well over a third of the region's population. But the camps are not immune to the violence. Many are controlled by the armed factions, and gangs of all stripes rob and rape many of those who venture outside. Other refugees wander Darfur's unforgiving scrub, searching for a village or patch of land with some semblance of stability. Darfur's humanitarian operation, already the largest in the world, struggles to service the displaced. Roads are a gauntlet of banditry...
...While everyone in the house was asleep, Senior Rob Wells fell from his bedroom window,” the president of DU, Michael R. Smith-Bronstein, wrote in a statement. “All indications show that this was an accident...
...been really good about offering a lot of support and helping arrange a memorial service for Rob at the MIT campus,” said Smith-Bronstein, an MIT junior...
...Rob was a genuine, caring person, who stood up for his friends and was quick to help others,” Smith-Bronstein wrote in the statement...