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...back together." Over the weekend, President George W. Bush spent an hour on seven phone calls to Iraqi leaders, expressing condolences, thanking them for their appeals for calm and urging them to continue working to form a new government. In private, U.S. officials sounded guarded. "This is plainly a test for the Iraqi government," says a well-placed national-security official. "What the outcome will be is not entirely clear." A U.S. anti-insurgency official in Baghdad was even more blunt: "It looks like all hell is about to break loose here...
...thanks to $1.5 billion Congress approved in December for levee-repair work and temporary floodgates on Lake Pontchartrain. Will it be enough? To find out, the Corps, using a supercomputer and a centrifuge, is running simulations on 1,300 storm possibilities to calculate risk. East New Orleans is its test case, and its report is due later this month. "If there is another Katrina, the system is not built to deal with it," admits Ed Link, head of the Corps team assessing risk. That's why Bush last month asked Congress for an additional $1.46 billion to boost hurricane protection...
...TEARJERKER TEST Scan the Web for info on documentary and live-action shorts. If the synopsis makes you cry, vote for it. For animated short, try One Man Band. It's by Pixar...
...college science courses, according to a study by researchers at Harvard and the University of Virginia. Harvard’s Wright senior lecturer on celestial navigation, Philip M. Sadler, the primary researcher of the study, said the recent survey polled college students in biology, physics, and chemistry courses to test the correlation between AP scores and first-semester college grades.The study, which found no significant correlation between AP scores and grades, adds to the ongoing debate among educators over the weight placed on AP exam scores.Many educators question whether a score of three or above on an AP test should...
...Pepe said. “He is often in a great deal of pain and has had multiple surgeries to correct the situation. A police officer saw a man walking very unsteadily and probably thought he was intoxicated.” He added that he is sure blood tests for other substances—the results of which have not yet been released—will be negative. “Dr. Kennedy was given a breathalyzer test and no alcohol was detected,” Yale University spokeswoman Helaine S. Klasky wrote in an e-mail yesterday. Kennedy...