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Slaughter in Ivory Coast as the Grisly Political Standoff Intensifies
At least 800 people were slaughtered in the western Ivory Coast town of Duekoue on March 29, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, as it became the latest town caught in the spiral of post-electoral violence engulfing the country. Caritas, a Roman Catholic charity, estimated the death toll was 1,000
A Brief History of Standardized Testing
Throughout the U.S., students are getting out their No.
Australia’s Gun Laws: Little Effect
On the afternoon of April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant snapped. A striking figure with his long blond hair and milky skin, he had just eaten lunch at a caf within the historic site of Port Arthur, a former prison in Australia’s island state of Tasmania
Welcome to the University of iTunes
The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection. Hundreds of universities, and a growing number of business schools, are making recordings of lectures, seminars and conferences available to the general public via Web sites such as iTunes and YouTube
Warsaw Ghetto fighter Marek Edelman hailed
Leading figures from Poland to the United States have been paying tribute to Marek Edelman, the anti-Nazi resistance fighter and Solidarity movement supporter who died Friday. Edelman was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, “the largest, symbolically most important Jewish uprising” against the Nazis during World War II, according to the U.S
Helicopter used in Swedish cash depot raid
A helicopter and explosives were used in an early morning raid on a cash depot in Stockholm, Sweden, police said Wednesday.
South Korea delays first rocket launch
South Korea’s first rocket launch has been delayed because of a technical glitch, the country’s official news agency reported. “There was a problem in the automatic launch sequence that caused the launch to be called off,” Lee Joo-jin, the head of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.