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...Summer has come early to London this year. The city's parks are parched, its riverside pubs and cafés packed. Londoners are enjoying the weather, but some detect in its unusual generosity the hidden curse of global warming. A similar pessimism greeted the life sentences handed out on the last day of April in a sticky courtroom to five British-raised terrorists for their involvement in a conspiracy to commit mass murder. The branch of the U.K.'s security service known as MI5 foiled the plot before any blood was spilled, but its success cloaks a tragic failure...
...urban élite runs the risk of undermining some of the same secular principles--like democracy--they are trying to defend. What happens next is unclear: a court ruling in favor of the secularists annulled the presidential nomination, but the pro-Islamic government has called early elections for this summer to try to win enough seats to force through their choice. Analysts are not ruling out a coup by Turkey's staunchly secular army if the Islamic-leaning party is returned by popular vote...
...dilemma than it is about trying to sell a can of paint." (Guess who's the prisoner?) Compare JetBlue's walk-up fares with Delta's advance-purchase fares, he says, and you'll see little difference. Still, demand is unusually high this year, meaning travelers should expect a summer of shoulder-to-shoulder flying. "If people are complaining, they're also buying tickets," he says...
...individual publisher and the interested reader to connect." Blurb's "slurper" tools, which pull text and images from the Web, have also inspired bloggers to put their posts on the printed page. A new feature allowing multiple contributors to collaborate on a single book will go live this summer...
...allowing for a longer and less stressful break -- an advantage recently emphasized by the Undergraduate Council and reinforced in a letter to me by the Director of the University Health Services. In addition, students would finish the academic year earlier in the spring, helping them compete more effectively for summer jobs and other opportunities. The current number of instructional days could be preserved, as could the opportunity for significant reading periods each term in those Schools that have them. The period in January between the fall and spring terms would give Schools discretion to pursue nontraditional educational offerings for students...