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...campus to danger by entrusting its security to less-experienced guards with few personal ties to the University. McCombe was born in New Bedford, Mass., in 1946, where he was one of three adopted children in a family of eight. A high school football player, he also served in Vietnam in the Navy from 1967-1970. He met and married his wife in the 1980s, and later adopted her son by a former husband. McCombe is survived by his wife, two brothers, son, and new grandson, Hayden Stephen McCombe...
...strains with the world's biggest collection of flu sequences--has been free. But Los Alamos officials say that without a new injection of funding, they will have to charge up to $10,000 a year for access to the site flu.lanl.gov Cash-strapped labs in Cambodia and Vietnam--two known epicenters of avian-flu outbreaks--have already said they can't afford that...
...like Harvard Law School alumnus Charles D. Terry, said they saw themselves as part of the grassroots activism tradition. “Although a walk doesn’t change things overnight, it can eventually bring about change,” Terry said, comparing the walk to the anti-Vietnam War protests. At the walk’s close, Omatayo Olaniyan, who is acting permanent representative of the African Union to the United Nations, highlighted the importance of the marchers’ efforts. “By marching, you are actually sensitizing the community here to the specific cases...
While the basic objective that led American troops into Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq remains noble--projecting democratic ideals--subsequent developments have proved the Washington strategists wrong. Once the immediate, specific objective has been achieved, it is time to get out, leaving it to Afghans and Iraqis to sort out their internal problems. They can rebuild their countries and manage themselves. Prolonging those missions only weakens...
...papers crowed when it was announced that aging vegetarian, philanthropist and, oh yeah, former Beatle PAUL MCCARTNEY, 54, was to be knighted. All the Beatles were previously given M.B.E.s (Members of the Order of the British Empire), although John Lennon subsequently sent his back as a protest against the Vietnam War. "It's a fantastic honor," said McCartney, "and I'm gratefully receiving it on behalf of the people of Liverpool and the other Beatles, without whom it wouldn't have been possible." McCartney wasn't the only celebrity honored. Now, it's Lord Lloyd Webber...