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...Brady will be at the Harvard Stadium this June to play some flag football as honorary chairman of the Audi Best Buddies International Challenge: Hyannis Port...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Charity, Tom Brady To QB at Stadium | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

MARIO ANDRESOL, Haiti's national police chief, on the more than 4,000 inmates who escaped from Port-au-Prince's National Penitentiary during January's earthquake and are now terrorizing neighborhoods and stealing aid supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

Alix Cantave, a lecturer at Tufts University, expanded upon Chomsky’s analysis, adding that the net effect of US and French policies during the aftermath has led to the “over-concentration” of citizens in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and has rendered the city more susceptible to natural disasters...

Author: By Graeme W. Crews, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chomsky Talks Haiti Relief | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

...After Lopez-Lizana reported that the uranium was accounted for, the NNSA team had to shift it through a crisis zone to a port on high alert for tsunamis. And their cargo was unstable. HEU must be stored and shipped in certain geometrical configurations - long, flat sheets, for instance - so that it does not spontaneously start a nuclear chain reaction, spewing out heat and radioactive by-products. When it has been used in a nuclear reactor, as some of the Chilean HEU had been, it becomes radioactive. Twelve hours before the earthquake, the NNSA engineers had overseen the fitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing a Potential Nuke from the Chile Quake | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...following four days, Bieniawski and his team plus a U.S. shipping contractor met with Chilean officials to plan an escape route. The meetings had an odd quality - aftershocks twice spilled coffee from cups. The original plan was to ship the HEU to the U.S. from the Chilean port of San Antonio, but it had been destroyed by a tsunami, so eventually the team decided to use the port of Valparaiso, 50 miles (80 km) to the north. On the evening of March 2, the officials and security teams met at the Lo Aguirre military base about 25 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing a Potential Nuke from the Chile Quake | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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