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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...student-designed lounge provides a startling contrast with the labs that surround it. The butterscotch walls and open seating area give the room a clean, modern feel; any feng shui expert would marvel at the telescope lens-like smooth geometry of the furniture. Swirly silver light fixtures hang from the ceilings, above a black tiled floor with a green, pink and yellow confetti pattern. On the right is a kitchen, replete with refrigerator, sink, microwave, wood cabinets, a Poland Spring water cooler and a bar-style seating area with funky wood and red fabric stools. In the main lounge area...

Author: By Sarah S. Burg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Room of Their Own | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

...Should the raiding party burst into the compound and risk a shoot-out, or surround the place and wait for the suspects to surrender? Hussain couldn't decide. In the end, his men did both. At 3 a.m., more than 100 police crept up to Shabaz Cottage. In case the suspects escaped, Hussain also mounted 40 police checkpoints on all the main roads in Faisalabad; each had Zubaydah's photo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Raid | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...promises to Bush’s—that the Israeli government would not allow terrorism to pass without retribution. One of the initial steps in Israel’s response to the latest spate of nail-studded explosives directed against toddlers, octogenarians, and other innocents has been to surround and hole up Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat in his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah. This move, and the military incursions into other Palestinian cities, have been met with cautions and reproach from the Arab world, Europe and now even the U.S., with Ariel Sharon receiving daily...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, | Title: Terrorism is Terrorism | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...despite her long hours and the difficulty of dealing with a diverse array of problems, UHS is not Cannon’s entire life and signs of her other main interest—her family—surround her at the office...

Author: By Katherine M. Dimengo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cannon Cures UHS’ Ills | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

Much that was hidden has come to light. At the top of the Last Judgment, two angels dressed in armor roll up the heavens - and we can now see that planets surround the sun and moon. While restorer Enrichetta Capodilista was working on the Massacre of the Innocents, she noticed that five of the women, whose children are being torn from them, have dark streaks on their faces. Her colleagues thought the marks might be water stains, but after she cleaned the women's faces with cotton swabs and distilled water their significance became clear. They are the desperate tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Revelations | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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