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...JUNKYARD WARS (TLC) Comedy Central's robot-war show BattleBots has the testosterone and buxom babes. But this U.K.-imported engineering challenge has the real geek appeal. Turning teams of amiable tinkerers loose to build hydroplanes, rockets and the like out of scrap parts, it combines good-natured competition with just enough pseudo education that you don't have to feel guilty for not watching Nova instead...
...then scattered around the globe to form "sleeper cells." "A lot of documents have been left behind, and we've got to get our hands on that stuff," says an official. To that end, orders have gone out to military and CIA personnel on the ground to preserve every scrap found, down to notes from wives and scribbles on matchbooks. Yet even with a list of names, intelligence agents will have a daunting task. Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian al-Qaeda operative who turned government witness after being convicted of a plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport during...
...Shortly after Masako's pregnancy was announced, there was a flurry of discussion about changing imperial laws to scrap the requirement that a male take the throne. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi himself said he thought it was a good idea. But last month, a leading Liberal Democratic Party politician, Taro Aso, said such discussion was premature. "We are not at a point where we can assume that no boys will be born in the future," Aso said. Of course, that was before the birth of the princess. The next round of royal debate has begun: Can Japan tolerate an Empress...
...Brazilian city of Goiania, discovered the mysterious substance when he pried open a heavy lead casing that a scavenger had sold him. Leide rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled. Dust fell on the sandwich she was eating. Leide, her father and the scrap collector were in critical condition at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last week, not expected to survive...The ten Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight specialists...Bone-marrow...
Personalized evaluations would allow Harvard to scrap its system of ranking students with grades. Each professor could write a couple paragraphs about each student, succinctly identifying the student’s academic strengths and weaknesses, in addition to explaining the material the student learned in the course. Comparison of the student to the rest of the students in the class would be forbidden. The upside to this system is that the evaluations would describe the student’s performance more precisely than grades, and all of this could be done in a non-competitive manner. The downside is that...