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Benefiting from a spate of National Institutes of Health grants, work in the cutting-edge field is moving quickly, as researchers swap ideas while competing to make potentially lucrative innovations first...
Last month, Harvard announced its schedule for the 2005-06 season, a lineup featuring a spate of home games against non-league opponents and a few games against potentially ranked opponents...
...moderate head of London's Muslim College, was denied entry to the U.S. after his plane landed in New York. Back at home, British Muslims have their grievances, and the list just got longer. In a development that was, perhaps, sadly inevitable, the London bombings ignited a spate of racist attacks. Several mosques were firebombed or had their windows smashed; there were incidents of abuse, threats and assaults. A 48-year-old Muslim man, Kamal Raza Butt, died, allegedly after being set upon by a mixedrace gang of youths in Nottingham. For the friends of Tanweer, such actions may just...
Catalano refused to speculate on whether the recent spate of calls could be related to these previous complaints...
...takes to change out the engine on a humvee. The Army could also use transponders similar to the ones NASCAR installs in cars to track their positions in a race, so military commanders can monitor all their vehicles on the battlefield. And amid an Army investigation into a recent spate of rollovers in Iraq that may have been caused by tacked-on, top-heavy armor, the service hopes to build on NASCAR engineering to reduce rollovers for the next generation of vehicles that will replace the 20-year-old humvee...