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...over spring break,” Mejia said. “The website is absolutely crucial to our foreign expansion efforts.” The HCS crash also prevented students for registering for this week’s Harvard Blood Drive. “I would say that the root cause was old and faulty equipment combined with the high demand,” Fasman wrote in an e-mail. “We had handled similar loads successfully in the spring, so I must point to a degradation in the hardware.” Because of the crash...
...this is just one of the numerous examples that exemplify Thornton’s penchant for dry, but funny, deliveries. Next to Thornton, Heder is, well, emasculated. His “Napoleon Dynamite” typecasted schtick of the anti-hero-we’re-supposed-to-root-for is running thin. Surprisingly, he didn’t don a “Vote for Pedro” t-shirt. That said, “Scoundrels” doesn’t do Heder justice for the charisma and actual screen presence he actually possesses. His character is so poorly...
...violent - broke out across the country. Commentators around Europe attributed the eruption to the passion of outraged [an error occurred while processing this directive] citizens of a former dictatorship who expected more from their elected leaders. But according to Gyurcsány's supporters, there's a more partisan root to the clashes as the country heads toward nationwide municipal elections on Oct. 1. In the aftermath of the demonstrations, police determined that a small coterie of right-wing football hooligans was responsible for the attacks and vandalism that caused close to €1 million in damage. Budapest Mayor Gabor...
...eliminate with a simple dousing in a chlorine bath, the current way that most fresh produce is cleaned. Eric Triplett, chair of microbiology and cell science at University of Florida, has published two studies documenting the ability of bacteria like salmonella to travel into a plant through its root system. "We just inoculate the roots and up they go, they fully colonize all over the plant," he told TIME...
...hundreds of millions of people lifted out of desperate poverty. The words of the Universal Declaration are as true today as they were when they were written. As liberty flourishes, nations grow in tolerance and hope and peace. And we're seeing that bright future begin to take root in the broader Middle East...