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...about the school incident. A stream of them now drive up to the school and one by one slide into an empty parking spot, leaving the car idling while the driver walks the child to the door. But in a rural area around deer-hunting season, police say, a stray shot into an empty school on a holiday is not necessarily big news. Says Obetz police chief Rick Minerd: "It could have been kids using their father...
...came to Harvard thinking that my priorities wouldn’t stray too far from what they had been in high school. I would be the model student, acing every paper, playing varsity tennis and keeping up my regular sitcom-watching schedule. When I didn’t make the tennis team, I went to my plan B—joining The Harvard Crimson and becoming one of the hard-core news writers. I did it at the time because to me it seemed like the thing to do. When the incoming managing editor told me freshman year that...
ARIS MESSINIS/AFP-GETTY IMAGES ANIMAL HUSBANDRY After a stray bit a Ukrainian archery coach while he was jogging, Greece announced plans to neuter, euthanize and tag the city's 60,000 lost dogs
...only selection on the list that’s gratifying for its sheer aesthetic qualities rather than its challenging material. Joe Pernice doesn’t stray far from his standard summer-break style, efficiently harmonizing instantly unforgettable hooks with radiant vocals. The falsetto chorus of “Baby in Two” will damage...
...Britain have developed a nickel-phosphorus compound called NPL Super Black that absorbs 99.65% of visible light. Black paint absorbs only about 97.5% of visible light--positively shiny by comparison. Not just cool, the new black is useful too. Precision optical instruments depend on eliminating any and all stray reflected light to get their readings. The blacker the black, the less reflected light, the better the data. That makes NPL Super Black a pretty bright idea...