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...protestors’ letter also asks the College to consider granting the Special Concentrations and Folklore and Mythology programs official departmental status, “to prevent circumstances such as these from arising again...
...above it fell last summer after the gate repeatedly slammed into it, according to Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck. She added that it was “never really designed for that much use.” The House replaced the pediment and put a door stop to prevent the slamming, but Lowell administrators think that ten years from now, with the possibility of increased traffic flow, it could fall again, outgoing Lowell House Committee (HoCo) Co-chair Neil K. Mehta ’06 said. Swipe access to the gate will be limited to Lowell residents in order...
...Dubai Ports World's acquisition of P&O is unlikely to affect the security situation at the six U.S. ports in question. As Flynn points out, the relevant question is not who owns the port, but what security arrangements are in place to prevent it being used as a point of entry for hostile elements. And right now on that front, U.S. ports across the board could use some work...
...North Atlantic, meanwhile, scientists have been warning for more than two decades about an influx of freshwater--not just from Greenland but also from melting icebergs and increasing mainland runoff. The resulting drop in salinity could change the density of surface water enough to prevent it from sinking as it cools and returning south to the tropics where it can replenish ocean currents like the Gulf Stream. And because the Gulf Stream is the only reason much of Western Europe has so mild and temperate a climate, such a shutdown of that conveyor belt of heat could be nothing short...
...consume Zionist products or manufactured goods.” (The terms “Jewish” and “Zionist” were used interchangeably.) The 72nd meeting in Syria of the League’s Boycott Bureau recently tightened its restrictions, which are designed to prevent trade with Israel and to isolate Jews politically by punishing their trading partners...