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...Standing Committee on Diversity school-wide meeting on May 26, administrators, faculty members and students hammered out a set of revised expectations for the school, most of which Murphy deemed reasonable...
...report's most compelling indictment is not of China but of the U.S. Lax security at national weapons labs virtually invited Beijing to pick their pockets. For years officials ignored complaints that the labs were wide open, and no Administration bothered to bolster their feeble protective measures. "On the security breaches," says Winston Lord, former U.S. ambassador to China, "I say, Shame...
...storefronts are shattered, window blinds protruding onto the street like broken ribs. There is no evidence of bombs or missiles: almost every roof is intact. The signs of rage and destruction--before the war, this was a city of 250,000 people, mostly Albanians, and the devastation is city-wide--evoke tornadoes and hurricanes...
What it boils down to is this. Netizens are sick of the World Wide Wait. We know the Internet isn't living up to its potential. Most of us would junk our 56K modems in a Palo Alto minute for a viable, affordable high-speed link to our home. But which pipe will we choose? Cable? Telephone? Wireless? Satellite? No one knows for sure, and Microsoft and AOL--both of whose businesses depend on the answer--are at pains to appear neutral in the coming shakeout. "We're pipe agnostic," says Microsoft vice president Brad Chase. Which actually means they...
...House subcommittee recommended a threefold increase in spending on observation of near-Earth objects. And only a year after astronomers triggered a short-lived scare by suggesting that asteroid 1997 XF11 might someday strike Earth, another newly discovered asteroid is causing concern. This one is 1999 AN10, a kilometer-wide hulk that in 2027 could hurtle past us as little as 20,000 miles away. First spotted in January, the asteroid attracted little attention when Italian astronomers posted preliminary calculations of its orbit on their website. But when these results were repeated on CCnet, a widely read e-mail network...