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...about 100 ft. across, was on a direct collision course with Earth--specifically, somewhere in the northern hemisphere--and only days away. At that size, it would probably explode in the atmosphere a few miles up with the force of a one-megaton H-bomb, enough to wreak havoc on anything directly below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Chicken Little Alert | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

Harvard fans can expect two things of Smith down the stretch: one, more ice time, and two, more overdrive. Against the Dutchmen, the captain was especially hungry to wreak havoc on Union...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Captain Smith Returns From Benching to Key Crucial M. Hockey Win over Union | 2/17/2004 | See Source »

...while the debate over intellectual property and copyright protection played out at HLS, MyDoom continued to wreak havoc on some Harvard students’ computers...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MyDoom Virus Infects Harvard | 2/4/2004 | See Source »

...Until now, few believed there were enough armed insurgents in the south to wreak such chaos. The fervor for separatism has waned since its peak in the 1970s and 1980s, when Islamic militants waged a bloody struggle against the Buddhist-dominated central government. But a senior Thai security official in the south told TIME that the past few years have seen a resurgence in militant Islam among the country's impoverished youth. This time, he believes, their fight is for a more grandiose cause. "[They are] in line with the global jihad... These kids have watched the war in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Targeting Thailand | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

...addition to its internal flaws, the new legislation could wreak external havoc by undermining the federal government’s already floundering fiscal solvency. With no provisions in the bill to raise any new revenue to pay for this very substantial new expenditure, Congress has effectively mortgaged the future livelihoods of today’s young people. By avoiding responsibility now, the Republicans have ensured that huge tax increases will eventually be necessary to pay the debts the president said he would not pass on “to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Congress Passes the Gravy | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

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