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...stellar cast. On Dec. 2, however, a mechanical failure of the hall's stage works that forced the cancellation of several performances demonstrated just how risky and tenuous such triumphs can be. A temporary fix has salvaged the season, but the brief hiatus turned the spotlight on the scale of Valencia's ambition...
...product) upon all decent Bostonians, succeeded in making the city and its denizens look, well, stupid. Fiends! They must be smoked out. Luckily, the Boston Police Department (BPD) unclothed the cartoonish mask of these devices to reveal their true nature as a hoax of a hoax of a wide-scale deliberate terrorist attack and responded accordingly. The first device was reported at 8:18 a.m. By 10:21 a.m., the BPD had blown up the box of lights with a water cannon (no radical laser was readily available) and determined that it was harmless. Over the next six hours...
Choosing to join a large-scale boycott is not as simple as connecting the dots between Coke’s inhumane practices and a decision to no longer drink Coke. This simplistic view is an easy and naive way for consumers to feel good about their buying power and ability to influence the market because it ignores potentially adverse consequences. Assuming a boycott has the strength to hurt a company’s profits, thoughtful consumers must consider the implications of the “success” of boycotting Coke for its reprehensible actions...
However, even the slightest asymmetry in these machines can create huge body torques that would ruin the stability of device. While gears and switches work well when designing movement on a large scale, developing such intricate machinery is impossible at the microscopic level. To make flying and hovering possible in MAVs, Wood has developed special materials that offer varying flexibility...
...consequences of a full-scale civil war will not only be hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dying, but also the strategic problem of "spillover." Based on their review of spillover patterns from past civil wars, Brookings' researchers believe Iraq's collapse would result in refugees streaming into neighboring countries, creating an economic burden. Embittered refugees would become "a ready recruiting pool for armed groups still waging the civil war." As al-Qaeda did in Afghanistan, terror groups would establish enclaves in Iraq. Neighboring populations could become radicalized and side with ethnic and religious factions fighting inside Iraq, as Albanians were...