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...Tuesday afternoon, police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas. On Wednesday, a group of ministers linked arms and--for one glorious hour--physically separated more than 300 protesters from a battalion of 200 police. By nightfall, though, the violence was spilling into other neighborhoods--crashing through blocks still scarred from the 1968 riots. A white motorist was dragged from her car and beaten. Police arrested more than 500 people by week's end; more than 60 were injured...
...such incident since last November, strained relations in Cincinnati beyond the breaking point. On Monday evening, riots broke out in Over-the-Rhine, the impoverished, primarily black area where Thomas lived. The unrest spread to other neighborhoods and intensified Monday night, when police attempted to quell the violence with rubber bullets, beanbags and tear gas. As of April 14, a week after the shooting, more than 60 people had been injured and over 25 had been admitted to a hospital. On Thursday, Mayor Charles Luken imposed a nighttime curfew, which appears to have restored a degree of calm...
Albert Einstein never did like the idea of antigravity. It wasn't that he had a problem with farfetched notions. After all, his special and general relativity theories made the astonishing assertion that time, space and matter could be squeezed and stretched like so much India rubber. The trouble was that some sort of antigravity force--Einstein called it the "cosmological term"--was required to make the predictions of general relativity match what astronomers believed the actual universe looked like. And that extra term marred the mathematical elegance of his beloved equations. The great physicist was hugely relieved when...
...Pool. The Crimson missed out on a chance to place among the top three finishers by falling to Brown 7-5 in the third-place game yesterday. The game was a back-and-forth battle between two heated rivals, but the Bears emerged in the end to take the rubber match in their three-game season series with the Crimson...
Last fall Tropian spent $200,000 on Oracle financial and purchasing software. Purchase orders are now handled over the Internet, eliminating rubber soles from the process and slashing the processing cost from $176 per purchase order to $87. Tropian says the investment has already saved it $530,000--and that number is growing daily. "For a start-up company," says director of materials and logistics Cindy Pence, "that's big bucks...