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...structural engineer will inspect the church’s remains today to determine whether the building can be rebuilt or should be destroyed, according to Brad R. MacDonald, assistant to the president of the Cambridge stake, or administrative unit of the Mormon church. Ultimately, the church will likely rebuild in the same location, a process that could take at least a year and a half, MacDonald said...
...Unit Test Program of Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics” will cut the number of test graders next year in an effort to increase accountability and cost-effectiveness, according to Unit Test Coordinator Thomas E. Wei. In an e-mail sent Wednesday to test graders for the course (commonly referred to as “Ec 10”), Wei wrote that the Unit Test program “will undergo significant reforms” next semester, including reducing the number of graders, enhancing channels for feedback, and rewarding grading performance with monetary bonuses...
...American troops from the country, it has certainly forced many Iraqi refugees to put off plans to return to the country. A series of bombings across Iraq in April killed more than 200, the highest monthly body count in roughly a year. Andrew Harper, head of the Iraq Support Unit created by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told TIME that the rate of refugee return slowed dramatically in April. And a "significant number" of returnees have turned around and fled the country again...
...that 18% of the 1.6 million internally displaced Iraqis have returned to their original homes.) Few refugees have signed up for the UNHCR's own programs offering financial assistance and subsidized transportation for those wanting to return. Many of those who do go back don't inform the U.N. unit, for fear of being taken off its refugee register. "They want to keep options open," Harper says. (See pictures of the Iraqi man whose job is to bury Baghdad's unclaimed dead...
...which fellow soldiers kill one another while on duty have been rare, despite an apparent increase in violent activity within the ranks of the military. The last such case to gain widespread attention came in 2003, when Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar attacked fellow soldiers in Kuwait as his unit prepared to join the Iraq invasion. Akbar was sentenced to death. The case marked the only one of its kind to occur since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, until...