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...Pachachi, told reporters that such a government would not be based either on the constitution or on the election results - results, he claimed, which didn't necessarily reflect the true will of the Iraqi people . Such a move would likely provoke a violent Shi'ite reaction, if not full-scale civil war, which the moderate Sistani would be anxious to avoid...
...quickly than with some of the other Americans. She was genuinely warm. She won me over. I still think she’s crazy, but not horrifying. THC: Can Beauty Without Borders improve the quality of life for Afghanistan’s women? LM: No, not in any large scale way. But for the 20 women who were in the first class, yes. It really was an oasis. I don’t think that it made an across the board change, but on a small level it improved lives. THC: Have Afghani women’s lives improved...
Early on the morning of April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale tore through the California coast. The quake, which had its epicenter near San Francisco, resulted in as many as 2,800 deaths and caused an estimated $400 million in damages when it hit 100 years ago yesterday. Cambridge may be across the country from the site of that earthquake, but Harvard has suffered its share of seismic events as well. In the mid 1700s, two earthquakes with magnitudes of at least 6.0 shook the city; since then, several lower-intensity quakes have...
...structures common to all animals can be pushed. The worms, known as Paralvinella sulfincola, can withstand conditions where water pressure reaches 4,000 psi and temperatures can change from 2 degrees to 350 degrees over a few millimeters. Girguis and his team recreated this temperature gradient on a smaller scale in their lab, constructing a tank of water that was cold on one end and hot on the other. Worms were then scattered randomly across the tank. Instead of standing still, as Girguis had expected them to, the worms all migrated to the region of the water that was roughly...
...management policy into the heart of the entire Vatican bureaucracy remains to be seen, though already two Curia offices have been downsized away. It is nonetheless clear that the Pope himself - who already plans fewer encyclicals and fewer trips than his predecessor - is doing things differently, on a smaller scale...