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Some proficiency in an African language will be a requirement for a degree in the new sub-concentration (four semesters for honors degree candidates and two semesters for non-honors candidates) and will fulfill the College’s language requirement...
...lingua franca of each of the three major sub-regions of Africa will be taught regularly each year...
...being towed to a navy scrap yard late last month when it sprang a leak and went down in the Barents Sea. Nine sailors lost their lives--a fraction of the 118 who died when another Russian submarine, the Kursk, exploded and sank three years ago. But this latest sub disaster could have more serious consequences. A high-level Russian official tells TIME that K-159 "presents a threat more menacing than that of the Kursk," a state-of-the-art submarine whose reactors were much less likely to leak radioactive material before the sub could be recovered. "There...
...being towed to a navy scrap yard late last month when it sprang a leak and went down in the Barents Sea. Nine sailors lost their lives - a fraction of the 118 who died when another Russian submarine, the Kursk, exploded and sank three years ago. But this latest sub disaster could have even more serious consequences. A high-level Russian official tells TIME that it "presents a threat more menacing than that of the Kursk," a state-of-the-art submarine whose reactors were much less likely to leak radioactive material before the sub could be recovered. "There...
Digital cameras have traditionally been judged by their resolution--the more megapixels, the better. Now some camera makers are saying it's not the number of pixels, it's the depth of the zoom. In April Olympus launched the 3.2-megapixel C740 ($499), the first sub-$500 model to sport a 10x optical zoom lens. Last week two more 10x zoom cameras--Fujifilm's 3.1-megapixel FinePix S5000 and Kodak's 4-megapixel EasyShare DX6490--hit the market for the same price. Most digital cameras have zoom lenses only up to 4x; the extra magnification is a real performance boost...