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...Amos reports that camera crews have been stopped from filming at the scene of ambushes on U.S. forces, sometimes being briefly detained or having their tapes confiscated. The military also no longer allows camera crews to film bodies arriving home in flag-draped caskets. The evident concern is to avoid generating troubling visuals - and the reasons are obvious: If the "Black Hawk Down" incident in Mogadishu is the defining military trauma of the past decade, it's worth noting that by the measure of combat fatalities in postwar Iraq has matched the Mogadishu death toll more than six times over...
...council vows to avoid a repeat of two years ago when a number of Harvard students were stranded without transportation because the council underestimated the number of necessary busses...
...Vietnam. Their mother died in the fire that burned down their home. Nguyen says that the family lives in the countryside and does not have the financial means to maintain the same level of education they have here, so her goal is to extend their stay here to avoid disrupting their education. She meets with the PBHA directors to work on their case; she updates her friends about her progress; her older brother has become involved; the girls come over to Nguyen’s home for dinner...
Astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) shut down instruments they maintain aboard NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft for several hours yesterday in order to avoid damage from the resulting radiation...
...Accepting your undesirable acquaintances makes it look like you’re happy with the relationship. It’s an easy trap to walk into—you get to avoid slighting your peer and expand your web of friendsters. But if the person you dislike attends Harvard—and is in your House, active in your extracurricular, or in section with you—your online relationship will inevitably spill over into real life. Your unfortunate acquaintance might attempt to strengthen the “friendship,” or, even worse, try to make you more...