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...International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Sources familiar with Iran's declaration say the country has admitted that it enriched uranium at the Kalay-e electric plant outside Tehran in violation of its agreements with the IAEA. The revelation is part of massive disclosures Tehran made in an attempt to avoid threatened international sanctions for its nuclear activities. The disclosures may at least temporarily thwart U.S. efforts to bring more international pressure on the country over the nuclear issue. "Iran did give a load of information," says a State Department official. "It was very, very specific and very, very extensive...
...alpine tundra, there were no border markings, and Kim wandered for days, unsure at first if she had reached China or was still in North Korea. To protect her chapped feet from the snow, she wrapped grass around her legs and hid in piles of leaves to avoid wolves. After days of walking on frostbitten feet, Kim reached a town and found work sorting eggs at a poultry factory. But a truck driver who was irked when she refused to sleep with him reported her to the police. On the truck back to North Korea, Kim swallowed a 50-yuan...
...unable to find one, scrambled to the right out-of-bounds for only six yards, taking six seconds off the clock. On second-and-four, wrapped up and on his way to the ground, Fitzpatrick desperately heaved the ball forwards into an empty field in an attempt to avoid a loss of yardage and to stop the clock. A flag went down and players and fans alike groaned at the sure intentional grounding penalty...
...avoid those pitfalls the Crimson did. Right from the opening faceoff, the tone of the team was different. Harvard was hitting hard, passing cleanly and skating with speed up and down...
...their conditions of origin. Aid policies ensure that no student is prevented from attending Harvard based on economic disadvantages. Fellowships and prizes are open to all Harvard students and are awarded on the basis of merit. Harvard’s policies and procedures have been carefully designed to avoid discriminating between its students on the basis of criteria irrelevant to the quality of their work and ideas. Refusing to facilitate recruitment by racist or otherwise discriminatory employers is a central part of this commitment. Harvard aims to be egalitarian and meritocratic, and the pursuit of these principles has produced institutional...