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Ganczarski left Germany last November and surfaced in late April in Saudi Arabia, where authorities decided to expel him. But U.S. officials, French sources say, persuaded the Saudis to send him home via Paris--where police could detain him. "The Germans couldn't or wouldn't charge Ganczarski," says a French antiterrorist official. "The Americans wanted him out of commission and his terrorist links fully explored." German officials knew that the suicide bomber responsible for the April 11, 2002, explosion at a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia--which killed 21 people--called Ganczarski shortly before launching his attack. They also knew...
...formal channels. Even gargantuan Western Union gets only a 12% slice of the total remittance market because so many people still send money by mailing a check or getting someone to hand-deliver the money. Every month in Los Angeles, German, 33, sends $100 to his sister in Nicaragua via Western Union or, whenever possible, by a courier who charges a couple of dollars less. "Two dollars is not a big difference here, but it's a big difference in Nicaragua," he says...
...diameter, a tidal stream turbine need be only 10 m across to produce 50% more energy. Though the blades turn slowly, just 10 revolutions per minute, the rotation generates a great deal of torque - a force that causes an object to rotate. That is then turned into energy via a hydraulic accumulator, which condenses the power into a motor that drives the generator. David Baird, managing director of Babtie, the engineering group that is working with Ayre, thinks tidal stream power has a big future. "Twice a day the North Sea drains in and out of the Pentland Firth...
Then, last year, his son and son-in-law—both named Jim—urged him to finish his degree. After initial rejection, the College eventually waived the residence requirement, Rigby said. He conducted a course in American History via e-mail with Associate Professor of History Catherine A. Corman, completing the credit needed for his degree...
Beginning in the fall, the committees will meet biweekly and exchange progress and ideas via the Steering Committee, made up of Kirby, Gross, Wolcowitz, the committee chairs and Carol J. Thompson, senior advisor to the dean of the Kennedy School of Government and a former associate dean of the Faculty for academic affairs...