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| Grad Student Found In NW16 Basement Faces Felony Charges Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Austin Chu STAFF REPORTER A graduate student faces felony charges after MIT Police found three students in a caged room in Building NW16 late Saturday night. The incident is reminiscent of the felony charges filed against three hackers found exploring the Faculty Club in October 2006. |
| Nobel Laureate Yunus Tells Grads To Make the World a Better Place Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Satwiksai Seshasai SENIOR EDITOR Pouring rain gave way to calmer skies as MIT’s 142nd Commencement began last Friday. Over 2,000 students received degrees in front of approximately 10,000 guests, including members of the 50-year reunion Class of 1958. |
| Small Lab Explosion Injures Graduate Student; Cause Is Under Investigation Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Angeline Wang NEWS AND FEATURES DIRECTOR An MIT graduate student was injured Wednesday in a small lab explosion in Building 16. |
| New Task Force Formed to Increase Input for Students Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Ramya Sankar STAFF REPORTER The Task Force on Student Engagement was established to increase student involvement on Institute decisions, announced administrators and student government leaders in the March/April issue of the MIT Faculty Newsletter. |
| Prof. Robert Langer Wins Largest Award for Technology Innovation Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Jonnelle Marte THE BOSTON GLOBE Robert S. Langer ScD ’74, an MIT Institute professor and a leader in the development of controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering, has won the world’s largest award for technology innovation. |
| Interest Grows for International Iran Atom Facility Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Farah Stockman THE BOSTON GLOBE A deeply controversial plan put forth by MIT scientists to end the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program is getting increased interest from senior members of both parties in Congress and nonproliferation specialists. |
| Animated Series ‘As the Wrench Turns’: New Turn for Magliozzi Brothers and PBS Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Joanna Weiss THE BOSTON GLOBE Most TV series are propelled into the world by creative vision, ambition, all-out effort, and dreams of market domination. With “Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns,” the upcoming PBS cartoon featuring “Car Talk” stars Tom Magliozzi ’58 and Ray Magliozzi ’72, it took something else — a whole lot of cajoling. |
| Tackling Stereotype Of Asian-Americans In Higher Education Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Tamar Lewin THE NEW YORK TIMES The image of Asian-Americans as a homogeneous group of high achievers taking over the campuses of the nation’s most selective colleges came under assault in a report issued Monday. |
| In Short Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 |
| Guantanamo Camp Remains, But Not Its Legal Rationale Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By William Glaberson THE NEW YORK TIMES The Guantanamo Bay detention center will not close today or any day soon. |
| Critics Raise Cries of Sexism In Clinton Coverage Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Katharine Q. Seelye and Julie Bosman THE NEW YORK TIMES Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks, putting up videos on a “Media Hall of Shame,” starting a national conversation about sexism and pushing Clinton’s rival, Sen. Barack Obama, to address the matter. |
| Japan Wages War on Its Widening Waistlines Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Norimitsu Onishi THE NEW YORK TIMES Japan, a country not known for its overweight people, has undertaken one of the most ambitious campaigns ever by a nation to slim down its citizenry. |
| Zimbabwe Detains Opposition Leader Again, and Aide Is Held On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Celia W. Dugger and Alan Cowell THE NEW YORK TIMES The standard-bearer for Zimbabwe’s opposition was twice detained by the police on Thursday, and one of his most important deputies was arrested to face treason charges. |
| House Passes Extension of Unemployment Benefits Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Carl Hulse THE NEW YORK TIMES The House took another step Thursday in a running political fight over unemployment insurance by ignoring a veto threat from President Bush and easily approving an extension of benefits for idled workers whose aid is running out. |
| Shorts (left) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Miguel HelftLeslie WayneCarlotta Gall and Eric Schmitt Microsoft’s four-month-long courtship of Yahoo has finally thrown Yahoo into the arms of their biggest common rival, Google. |
| Shorts (right) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Alissa J. RubinIan UrbinaJames KanterBina Venkataraman A leading Sunni political party’s headquarters in western Iraq was blown up early Thursday morning while in southern Iraq, where Shiite factions have been fighting one another, a powerful bomb was discovered on the road to an important Shiite shrine. |
| The Heat Is Gone Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Jon Moskaitis STAFF METEOROLOGIST The series of hot days beginning last Saturday and ending last Tuesday was very unusual for this early in the season. Intense heating of the land relative to the chilly ocean (still about 60°F at the surface) typically supports a strong sea-breeze circulation, which serves to draw relatively cool air from Boston Harbor into Cambridge. During this heat wave, however, large-scale westerly winds generally did not allow the sea-breeze circulation to penetrate beyond the immediate coast line. The result was very hot afternoons, including as estimated high of 99°F (37°C) in Cambridge last Tuesday. |
| Outstanding Service Award for MIT Sailing Master and Coach Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By James Kramer DAPER STAFF MIT sailing master and coach Fran Charles received the prestigious Graham Hall Award for outstanding service by a college sailing professional this past week at the 2008 Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association/Gill National Championship. As the recipient of this coveted honor, Charles was inducted into the Intercollegiate Sailing Hall of Fame. |
| Men’s Lightweights Finish Eighth at Crew Nationals Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 On Saturday, June 7 the MIT men’s lightweight crew team finished eighth at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships. |
| The Nickname Edition: Yet Another Matchup For Celtics vs. Lakers Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Charles Lin STAFF COLUMNIST Praise The Basketball Gods, for you have smiled on us this June, most likely because Red Auerbach has joined your ranks. You have treated us to an incredible Lakers vs. Celtics matchup that has nearly lived up to the hype. (I say nearly because it’s not clear that even a Game Seven triple-overtime buzzer-beater fadeaway jumper could justify this amount of coverage.) |
| Reporter’s Notebook Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Emily Prentice STAFF COLUMNIST “Wow. It’s pretty chilly out here today.” |
| Life’s Lemmas Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By David Shirokoff STAFF COLUMNIST In a past column, I may have mentioned that I used an iron while building a desk and bookshelf. Although I’ve closed the book on the iron, there is more to say about the desk. |
| Talk Nerdy to Me Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Christine Yu Shopaholic that I am, I own five different swimsuits — except, I can’t swim. Well, I can doggy paddle, but flailing pathetically around a pool just isn’t very attractive. I would wear flotation devices, except that’s even less attractive. (But, it’s a fashion statement! Suuure.) |
| Squid vs. Whale Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 By Charles Lin CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR For anyone who particularly cares (i.e. anyone not from America), UEFA’s Euro 2008 soccer tournament started up this week. This marks the 48th anniversary of European nations utilizing soccer as a proxy for war. Since European nations began having organized soccer tournaments in 1960, nary a war has been fought in Western Europe — a tremendous accomplishment for nations that used to invade each other for a laugh. Yes, the Union of European Football Associations, and not the UN, is to be praised for our long peace in Western Europe. |
| Boy Scouts praised as heroes after twister kills 4 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:39:00 EDT BLENCOE, Iowa (AP) — When the howling winds finally died down, the Boy Scouts — true to their motto, "Be Prepared" — sprang into action. Putting their first-aid training to use, they applied tourniquets and gauze to the injured. Some began digging victims from the rubble of a collapsed chimney. And others broke into an equipment shed, seized chainsaws and other tools, and started clearing fallen trees from a road. |
| British man breaks down during double-murder trial Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:38:00 EDT WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The British man accused of fatally shooting his wife and infant daughter broke down and cried yesterday as prosecutors showed jurors a videotape of the bodies laying cuddled together in bed. |
| Mass. gov's daughter says she's gay; dad says he's proud Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:38:00 EDT BOSTON (AP) — The youngest daughter of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said in an interview published yesterday that she's gay, and came out to her parents after lawmakers voted to kill a proposal that could have outlawed gay marriage in the state. |
| Teachers defend shock tactics in DWI program Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:37:00 EDT OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend. |
| CDC: Salmonella-tainted tomato illnesses reach 228 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:37:00 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The toll from salmonella-tainted tomatoes jumped to 228 illnesses yesterday as the government learned of five dozen previously unknown cases and said it is possible the food poisoning contributed to a cancer patient's death. |
| FDA issues precautionary note on silver fillings Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:36:00 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Silver dental fillings contain mercury, and the government for the first time is warning that they may pose a safety concern for pregnant women and young children. The Food and Drug Administration posted the precaution on its Web site earlier this month, to settle a lawsuit — making the move a victory for anti-mercury activists. |
| Slaying of 2 girls stuns small town in Oklahoma Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:29:00 EDT WELEETKA, Okla. (AP) — Maybe they stumbled onto a crime in progress. Perhaps they were ambushed by "drunks and dopeheads." Or maybe it was some kind of thrill killing. The slayings of two girls — ages 11 and 13 — who were shot along a rural back road have baffled investigators and struck fear into townspeople, who are now afraid to let their children out of their sight. |
| Police describe finding slain mother, baby Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:27:00 EDT WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A state police trooper testifying yesterday in the trial of a British man accused of killing his American wife and daughter described the heartbreaking scene he found in the family's home: mother and baby lying in bed together, both dead of gunshot wounds, the woman's right arm draped across her child's chest. |
| US life expectancy tops 78 as top diseases decline Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:27:00 EDT ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported yesterday. The increase is due mainly to falling mortality rates in almost all the leading causes of death, federal health officials said. The average life expectancy for babies born in 2006 was about four months greater than for children born in 2005. |
| Armed robbers take Picasso prints from museum in Brazil Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:41:00 EDT SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Three armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from an art museum in downtown Sao Paulo yesterday, the city's second high-profile art theft in less than a year. The bandits also took two oil paintings by well-known Brazilian artists Emiliano Di Cavalcanti and Lasar Segall, said Carla Regina, a spokeswoman for the Pinacoteca do Estado museum. |
| Visitors flocking to Italy to see 'unicorn' deer Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:41:00 EDT ROME (AP) — The shy, young deer nicknamed "Unicorn" because of the rare, single horn in the center of his head is drawing hundreds of curious visitors, park officials said yesterday. People are flocking to the nature preserve in Tuscany where the deer lives, hoping to see him and take his picture. |
| Bush doesn't rule out military strike in Iran Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:26:00 EDT MESEBERG, Germany (AP) — President Bush yesterday raised the possibility of a military strike to thwart Tehran's presumed nuclear weapons ambitions, speaking aggressively even as he admitted having been unwise to have done so previously about Iraq. |
| Survivors of Chilean plane crash kept alive by sharing food,
huddling for warmth Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:25:00 EDT SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A plane carrying 10 people that disappeared four days ago in Chile's frigid southern forests was found yesterday with nine survivors who stayed alive by huddling for warmth, sharing food and sheltering in the plane's wreckage. |
| Secret al-Qaida, Iraq files found on British train Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:24:00 EDT LONDON (AP) — Secret government documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were left on a commuter train, prompting a major police investigation into the latest in a series of embarrassing security breaches, British officials said yesterday. |
| Austrian woman raised in cellar reunited with family after waking
from coma Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:23:00 EDT ZEILLERN, Austria (AP) — A woman born and raised in the cellar where her mother allegedly was kept captive as a sex slave for 24 years has emerged from an induced coma with two requests: to go on a boat ride and to see pop singer Robbie Williams in concert, doctors and a lawyer said yesterday. |
| Feds: Man had heroin in diaper he wore Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:09:00 EDT NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal officials said. |
| Ga. aquarium announces rare sea dragon pregnancy Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:35:00 EDT ATLANTA (AP) — A weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium has something to celebrate this Father's Day. One of the rare creatures is pregnant for only the third time ever at a U.S. aquarium, aquarium officials said. But don't look for the expectant mom — dads carry the eggs in this family. |
| Mom finds snake in crib, coiled around baby's leg Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:23:00 EDT BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who awoke to her baby's cries was shocked to peer into the crib and find a foot-long snake wrapped around her 7-month-old daughter's leg. Cari Abatemarco said she was visiting family in the Long Island town of Brentwood last week when she made the startling discovery. |
| LA reservoir covered with balls to protect water Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:22:00 EDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of shimmering black plastic balls were dumped into one of the city's last open-air reservoirs to prevent a sunlight-fueled chemical reaction that can harm the water supply. |
| PHOTO SLIDESHOW: Londonderry High Graduation Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:05:00 EDT Londonderry High School's 29th annual commencement was held at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester on Saturday afternoon. Photo by Allegra Boverman |
| Sanborn graduation Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:22:00 EDT Sanborn Regional High School's graduation ceremony was held at the school's gym. Photo by Allegra Boverman |
| Pelham Graduation Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:14:00 EDT Pelham senior class president Jahaira Negron gave the class message at Pelham High School. Photo by Jarrod Thompson |
| Photo Slideshow:Salem High Graduation Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:00:00 EDT Salem High School senior Matt Gaw, 18, rocks out to the tune of "Ballet Sacra-Finale" Friday evening during the Salem High School graduation. Photo by Jarrod Thompson |
| Photo Slideshow: Timberlane Graduation Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:23:00 EDT Plaistow: Megan Falkenham of Sandown blow bubbles while her classmate receive their diplomas during graduation ceremonies at Timberlane Regional High School Friday evening. Photo by Roger Darrigrand/Eagle-Tribune Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| Pinkerton Graduation Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:49:00 EDT Derry: Samantha Taschereau, left, and Angela Santitto, both of Derry, hug each other in the gym as they line up just before the graduation begins at Pinkerton Academy Friday, June 13. Photo by Ken Yuszkus |
| Photo Slide Show:Challenger baseball game at Triton Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:42:00 EDT Triton baseball player Sam Ferrara carries Nicholas Eaton at the Challenger baseball game at Triton Saturday. Approximately 25 special need students played in the game supported by members of the Triton baseball and softball teams. Photo by Jim Vaiknoras |
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