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...look at it as less self-promotional than it is hooking the many things going on here with the world at large,” Zittrain says. According to Zittrain, HLS deals—primarily in an academic sense—with “a ton of hotly contested policy issues” and it would be beneficial both to the law school and to the outside world to have a more effective link. Many professors feel that Harvard does not need to battle schools like NYU for publicity—there’s already enough...
...have had a wonderful four years at Harvard," Schwartz said. "I have always found wonderful opportunities at Harvard and learned a ton...
...this particular skeleton was probably torn apart by sharp-toothed predators as it lay on the beach of a warm tropical sea. He found only a few bones, but they were enough to calculate the dinosaur's gargantuan size at 80 to 100 feet long and weighing 60-70 tons. The find solves another mystery: what those previously discovered predators - three different kinds, each (at 50 feet) bigger than Tyrannosaurus Rex - were dining on during their prehistoric stay on the old North African coast. Said Smith: "Now we've found a 90-ton steak that they were eating...
...currently being dumped. Instead, the region is confronting a disaster of biblical proportions as illegal miners burrow into the muddy earth. The ore they bring up from the hundreds of tunnels snaking as far as 70 m under the surface contains minute amounts of gold, a few grams a ton. Their primitive processing techniques require large quantities of mercury to extract the precious metal. Los Angeles-based environmental consultancy Dames and Moore estimates that between 100 and 200 tons of mercury have already seeped into the soil and water around the main mining site at Talawaan. Many tons more...
...credible eyewitness saw McVeigh construct his 2-ton bomb, nor could anyone positively identify him as the driver of the Ryder truck who parked the explosives beneath the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Prosecutors based their case on evidence that showed McVeigh planned the bombing, rented the Ryder truck, moved into a nearby motel to make preparations and bought a 1977 Mercury as a getaway car. The testimony of McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, who admitted to helping McVeigh plan the bombing, and the traces of explosives found on McVeigh's clothing were particularly damning. And McVeigh...