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Aware of Palestinian designs on Jerusalem, Israeli construction policy in recent years has been to surround the city with a ring of primarily Jewish neighborhoods. Har Homa is the last link in this protective ring. A significant Jewish presence at Har Homa would seriously set back Palestinian plans to take over Jerusalem and connect it with PA-controlled Bethlehem...
Berens recommended redirecting the ventilation exhaust in a vertical direction, replacing the kitchen and dishwasher exhaust fans with quieter models and building one-foot-high barriers to surround and muffle fan noise...
...effects will be noticed heavily in sound, graphics and video-intensive applications. Because of the chip's increased instruction-set capacity, video and 3D surround sound will be noticeably smoother. This is good news for all you Quake junkies and graphic artists...
...Secretary Stuart Eizenstat as her Under Secretary for Economic Affairs meant that he could stuff those issues in his briefcase and bring them back to State. Likewise, by tapping Thomas Pickering, considered the five-star general of the diplomatic corps, as her No. 3, she signaled that she would surround herself with high-powered people "to move the center of gravity on foreign affairs back to the State Department," as a senior White House aide explained...
...four years at Harvard, I have been constantly impressed with the diversity of students and faculty and I have been often stimulated by the capacity of students to think and to challenge one another, faculty and the many experts who surround us. The brilliance that exudes from this campus is overwhelming. It is my hope that we understand we are only a piece of the grand brilliance which exists in this world. Too often we have gotten lost in our own glory, thinking ourselves much too large for the rest of the world. Harvard is but one institution; the complex...