Word: northwestern
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...this world, arguments are as dangerous as radiation and as swift as ballistic missiles, as are the curt phrases that punctuate them. Later, I will hear the story of the 1984 Northwestern Tournament from the man who won it, Jonathan B. Wiener ’84. The other team spoke at length about Cuban refugees intercepted by US patrol boats. Wiener and his partner parried with their own counter-plan, but its significance eluded their opponents. “I guess you missed the boat,” the Harvard team quipped. The audience collapsed in hysterics. It ruined...
...army revealed in a briefing on Oct. 12, the Taliban threat has now spread well beyond its northwestern borderlands and grown tentacles that reach deep into the country's heartlands. Five of the 10 attackers who laid siege to Pakistan's equivalent of the Pentagon in Rawalpindi came from Punjab, Pakistan's largest and wealthiest province. It is also home to the bulk of the army. The Punjabi militants involved in the audacious assault were linked to groups that once enjoyed the military's patronage, and until five years ago, the ringleader had been among its very own ranks...
Falk will be taking over as the successor to Morton O. Schapiro, an expert in the economics of higher education who left Williams after nine years at the helm to become president of Northwestern University...
...measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale striking Thursday morning. With thousands of islands strewn across a volatile fault zone, Indonesia is often shaken by earthquakes. But the past few years have proven particularly deadly. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and earthquake claimed 130,000 lives in Aceh, the northwestern tip of Sumatra that is not far from Padang on the western side of the island. In 2006, an earthquake hit the metropolis of Yogyakarta on the island of Java, killing more than 5,000 people. (A day before Padang was jolted, a South Pacific earthquake triggered a tsunami around...
...Dean Malmgren has. A faculty member in Northwestern University's department of chemical and biological engineering, Malmgren thinks a lot about universal laws and how they might explain human behavior, even seemingly spontaneous actions like writing an e-mail to a friend. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...