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King Solomon, legend has it, died while leaning on his cane - but nobody noticed until a thousand years later, when termites finally ate their way through the cane and the dead monarch crumpled to the floor. Like Solomon, the Bush Administration's Middle East peace policy is dead, but nobody has noticed except the Palestinians...
...took the builders of Solomon's temple a thousand years to notice that the king had died. But time is rapidly running out for the Bush Administration to resume the traditional U.S. role of referee in the Arab-Israeli conflict. If Washington fails to show up, the states and peoples of the Middle East will be left to find their own solutions - and, as we well know, that will mean many more years of violent chaos...
...otherworldly experience of those who live and work in a section of the city hermetically sealed off from the chaos outside. The air-conditioned offices of the press center were cool, efficient and orderly, making the noise, heat and acrid stench of car exhaust throughout Baghdad seem a thousand miles away. The officers on hand processed my credentials quickly and easily, and joked around with my bodyguard...
...hilarious joke: it wasn’t until I discovered cloves the summer after my senior year of high school that I really started “lighting up” on the regular. That went on for three long, happy years. During that time, I probably took a thousand study breaks and met literally dozens of girls. I was known as “the smoker,” and in some circles, “smokey.” Now, thanks to an old Russian man from Brookline, it’s all over...
...fastest supercomputers in the world is now up and running for Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS). The IBM Blue Gene, which has the processing power of several thousand desktop computers in roughly the floor space of two desks, will be used to study complex systems such as blood circulation and galaxy formation, according to Director of Information Technology Joy Sircar. Harvard’s Blue Gene is called CrimsonGridBGL and will be part of the DEAS’s Crimson Grid, a technology initiative aimed at creating a campus-wide technology infrastructure for research...